Overwintering

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Vanessa Kisuule unearths the poems that offer us insight into the issues that ail us most. This week, it's getting through winter. "Overwintering" is a term usually reserved for plants or animals adapting in order to make it through winter. But we humans are living beings too and perhaps we are also in need of some mulching around the roots, some bringing indoors, some hibernation. And when life throws us a metaphorical winter, can we allow ourselves to just sit and watch through the window 'til the storm has passed? Perhaps poetry can help. Can it make us calmer, wiser, and more accepting of life's unplanned pauses? With Katherine May, author of Wintering and the poets Lavinia Greenlaw, Megan Fernandes and Isabelle Baafi. Produced in Bristol by Ellie Richold