‘Waits’: a Christmas poem by Philip Gross
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Award-winning poet Professor Philip Gross teaches creative writing at the University of Glamorgan. In this Christmas Lecture, he reads his new Christmas poem, which was inspired by the medieval Waits — the village musicians who came out on Christmas Eve, long before carol singing became a family occupation.
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