Today’s choice
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Jenny Robb
Jenny Robb has been writing poetry since retiring from a social work and NHS career in mental health and children’s services. She’s been published widely in magazines and anthologies. Her second collection is Hear the World Explode, Yaffle Press 2024. X: @jirobb Instagram: jenny_robb
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, we bring you Elizabeth Gibson and Roma Havers
‘Weighing yourself in the dark at Christmas in your parents’ house’
‘A Rink’
On the Eleventh Day of Christmas, we bring you Alle Bloom and Mariam Saidan
‘Knots’
‘God Makes Me Promises’
On the Tenth Day of Christmas we bring you Jean O’Brien, Paul Stephenson, Ruth Aylett, Sarah Mnatzaganian
‘Left Over Christmas Trees’
‘New Year’
‘New Year is no cliché’
On the Ninth Day of Christmas we bring you Scott Elder, Lynn Valentine, Sue Finch
‘The Ninth Day’
‘Winter Soup’
‘The Stars are Clays’
On the Eighth Day of Christmas we bring you D.A. Prince, Frances Boyle, Maggie Mackay
‘Redbreast’
‘Advent’
‘Ambulant’
On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you Pam Thompson, Mary Mulholland, Oliver Comins
‘Advice To One Who Is Single’
‘Mother Bear’
‘Yuletide Snapshot’
On the Sixth Day of Christmas we bring you Alison Binney, Kathy Pimlot, Elaine Westnott-O’Brien
‘Muscle Memory’
‘And then that first Christmas’
‘Month’s Mind’
On the Fifth Day of Christmas we bring you Helen Grant, Lydia Kennaway, Kath Mckay
‘Nest of Christmas’
‘Twelve Days’
‘Possibility of violence’
On the Fourth Day of Christmas we bring you Rob Walton, Abigail Ottley, Ian Parks
‘It’s the most’
‘Home Fires’
‘Christmas in Mexborough’