It's a very short (roughly 69 pages in my free ebook edition) of poems with a decidedly Christmas feel. They tend to focus on the religious aspect of the season, particularly dealing with the Nativity story; this was unsurprising given the time it would've been written.
I read this in less than an hour, the day before Mr Click's birthday, last thing at night. It's very festive-flavoured and it's a fairly easy read if you just need a little poetic Christmas boost.
Some of the poems include a mention of where they were written and I noticed that a couple of them were written in Ballachulish. That's a teeny village in the Scottish Highlands where I did a teaching placement. The school is lovely and I have many happy memories of that place so it was nice, if unexpected, to see it get a mention.
The poems had some nice rhyme schemes and metre. I find that I pay more attention to that sort of thing since I studied it with the OU. It's useful because before I used to find poems that I didn't particularly like but couldn't put my finger on exactly why; now I can recognise that I'm particularly drawn to certain metres.
I also feel like I should maybe explain the title as it's explained in the book. A faggot is a bundle of sticks which are used for heating and this is a bundle of heartwarming poems. It's not a title that has aged well, but it's charming in its eccentricities.
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