Poetry Book Society’s Christmas supplement edited by Peter Porter, including contributions from Dannie Abse, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Gavin Ewart, Evan Jones, George MacBeth, Rolland Munro, Peter Redgrave, Penelope Shuttle, Jacqueline Simms, George Szirtes, Anthony Thwaite, and Robert Preston Wells. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.