'Twas the Night Before Christmas - A 2024 Poetry Challenge - An Introduction

Every so often at Yorkshire Writers' Lunch we like to collaborate in some way.

In the past this has manifested as episodic narratives to which multiple lunchers contributed: The Year of Darkness, Passport, Platform 3 and Collier's Creek to name but a few. However last Christmas we tried something new: a poetry challenge.

As the title of this post suggests, we took the opening lines of A Visit From St Nicholas by Clement Clark-Moore and penned a new verse, one that imagined a different creature that wasn't stirring.

In time for this year's Christmas, we will be posting the resulting poems for your amusement. After all, a silly poem deserves to show off in public.

If you'll permit the early festivities, here follows the first adaptation of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas as penned by Tim Taylor...

"Christmas Light" by Ennev is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.