SILENT NIGHTS – Bruce Clark

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Silent Nights is a collection of poetry written every year during the Christmas time. For over four decades, Bruce Clark has written an annual Christmas poem by way of a gift for family, friends, and associates. The poems were of varying styles and tones, depending on the history of any particular year. Now, Clark has compiled an anthology of twenty of these poems. Silent Nights collects those written for the first twenty Christmases of the current millennium. As well as celebrating the values of every Christmas, these poems in their variety also represent a history of two massive decades. Enjoy this unique gift of Christmas.

Bruce Clark was a High School English teacher for over forty years in his home State of Queensland, Australia, most recently at St Peters Lutheran College Indooroopilly. As well as teaching literature, he has practised the craft, writing across a wide range of genres. He has written and directed over 25 School Musicals, had one published, written a major stage musical Broadway Man, a major Musical Gilwell on the life of Baden-Powell, had plays shortlisted in State competitions, won minor awards in Short Story and Poetry competitions, self-published two political thrillers, has had screenplays reach quarter-finals in international competitions, and now offers a collection of his annual Christmas poems for public perusal. His ambition is to be a proper writer when he grows up.