Nine new carols by award-winning Australian poet  Mark Tredinnick. Written to be read and sung, these are poems of musicality and quiet wisdom, poems of delight and sadness, levity and gravity.  These are carols for our time, which sing rain and sun and birds and mountains, love and loss. domesticity and wildness, land and language, giving and taking, living and dying. They strike themes we return to each Advent and Christmas: truth-telling, forgiveness, hope, delight, recollection, rebirth. Enjoy them on the silence of the page: share them out loud, sing them in gratitude and anticipation.