Jean Watt, a poet of Scottish and Welsh parentage, was a social worker. She published poetry and prose translations from German and French, and was author of 'A Skirt with Pockets: A lifetime of poets' (1993). A commentator writes: 'Lent is a little like winter – bare, unadorned, without leaf or flower. Lent is an invitation to look inward. That can feel vulnerable, risky, even fearful, as we bare our souls both to ourselves and to God. Yet if we accept this invitation, we enter “a most precious space” – a space in which we can be still, ponder and meet ourselves in all our wonder and frailty. In the midst of this invitation to being stripped back, we can find surprising beauty, like the dusting of snow on bare branches.'