The Asking XMAS NR While Nene and her friends

While Nene and her friends are busy with preparations

an urban-like array of gridded broken walls and shattered foundations

Nick Frost has lit up our screens for decades with his perfectly observed

and committing petty crimes

The Asking XMAS NR While Nene and her friendsJane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. In an era of algorithm, assertion and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfields poems bring a much needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. The Asking includes work from her earlier