The Seafarer

by Kevin Crossley-Holland images by Inger Lawrance prepared from the Anglo Saxon by Kevin Crossley-Holland Ever since the tenth century, versions of The Seafarer have been committed to books, though it was no doubt part of the tradition of poems recited aloud and...

Eleanor’s Advent

by Kevin Crossley-Holland images by Alyson MacNeill In this poem, written for one of his daughters, Kevin Crossley-Holland uses the metaphor of the lighting of each of four candles in an advent crown. Advent is a time of anticipation and of growing illumination. Each...