For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it.

A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent.

Among the classic and contemporary writers he includes are:

• George Herbert,
• John Donne,
• T S Eliot,
• Christina Rossetti,
• John Keble,
• W H Auden,
• Gerard Manley Hopkins,
• Gwyneth Lewis,
• Micheal O'Siadhail,
• Thomas Hardy,
• John Masefield and many others.

He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.