Janet Morley calls the season of Advent ‘a pilgrimage of the heart’, a time for stillness and contemplation. She invites us to contemplate its themes of darkness and death, light and new life with some of our greatest poets, including George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, TS Eliot and William Blake, in the hope that when the great feast of Christmas comes, we too will have ‘walked haphazard by starlight straight into the kingdom of heaven.'