Festive Fun

I posted this quiz on the Poets on Fire Forum but there's no reason why visitors here shouldn't suffer similarly. It's not supposed to be easy and the 5 claimed by one member of that forum is probably a very respectable score. As you will appreciate, it's partly festive and partly 'the year in poetry'.

1. Which book of poems this year was, anagrammatically, Shrewd Staid Whit by Solemn Dry Dud?
2. Which much respected poet wrote Reindeer sleigh, Come our way, Ho, ho, ho, Cherry nose, Cap on head, Suit that's red, Special night, Beard that's white ?
3. Which book ended with and none of this, none of this matters ?
4. Which book contained six poems in which every line was __________?
5. Where was Ruth Padel reading on the day that poetry hit the headlines with reports of her rival’s alleged indiscretions (see picture above)?
6. Which stove is lit again when the bells of waiting Advent ring, according to one past laureate?7. Whereas the latest one observed that, having paid the pipers, we dinnae call the tune. Which adjective, exactly, did she attach to the pipers?
8. When the Nation’s favourite poet wrote about Christmas, of what would the magi have finally been glad of another?
9. Which poet was Christmas number one in 1968?
10. Who wrote ,
Little tree
little silent Christmas tree
you are so little
you are more like a flower
who found you in the green forest
and were you very sorry to come away?

And a Happy Christmas to all my readers. I'll hope to be reviewing the RSC Hamlet, to be shown on telly on Boxing Day early evening, and then I'll see you next year.

Best, D.