Today is the shortest day of the year, also known as the winter ... Let’s celebrate the solstice with some wintery quotes and poems… ‘Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it ...

Republic Day is an important day in India as it marks the moment when India officially became a republic. This happened on ...

A poem for this very day, the solstice, the shortest day, what John Donne called the ‘year’s midnight’ – Liz Lochhead was inspired by John Donne’s poem to write her own and peep around ...

SIMON: For more than 40 years, people have been reading and performing Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day" to celebrate the winter solstice. COOPER: (Reading) And when the New Year's sunshine ...

Susan Cooper's children's book The Shortest Day, released in 2019, is a celebration of light returning after the winter solstice. The text of the book is actually a poem she wrote in the 1970s for ...