It was a joy to hop on a jolly zoom in a heatwave-baked park with
@spiraclehq and
@cherry_potts_writer late summer – and a slight surprise to be asked to curate an audiobook of Christmas poems. A few months of careful crafting later, as the clocks go back and the mercury drops, these glorious samples land on my doorstep.
If you don’t know Spiracle’s groundbreaking
@audiobookinacard scheme, allow us to introduce you. They’re found a way of taking audio from the Mars-bound billionaire’s techsphere, and returned it, beautifully packaged and curated, to bookshops. So roll up, headphones on, and allow Cherry and I to introduce you to this joyous collection…
🎄🔔
“We have found a cornucopia of poems old and new, far wider than traditionally read, both in terms of the obvious poems that spring to mind and in the sense of what people tend to mean by ‘Christmas’. We were delighted to find many soulful, sometimes cheeky, often deeply community-focused ways of celebrating the winter dark and return of light, which we hope can breathe life into anyone’s winter festivities. Donkeys and wise men? Sure, but not as you know them, and so too the wayward band of Christmas temps. Father Christmas gets a look in, of course, together with his dark twin, Krampus”.
/audiobooks/twas-the-night-before-christmas
