In this episode, Dara is wondering if the spirit of the season is upon you, or if you’re still waiting for that festive feeling to announce itself. The price of beef isn’t helping much. Nor is the price of Christmas trees, for that matter! And why does his daughter have so much to do?
Ignoring those sources of exhaustion and exasperation, Dara launches into a sheaf of Christmas poems from both sides of the Atlantic. Christmases exotic and local, Christmases lonely and loving, Christmases urban and rural, they’re all represented. Just don’t tell Dara that you knew what a ‘garrigue’ was!
Christmas poems from PoetryFoundation.org: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/101692/christmas-poems
Christmas Crackers: https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/christmas-crackers-ten-poems-to-surprise-and-delight/