Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Mina Loy. But who is this? Until his death, famous playwright, raconteur and funnyman Harold Pinter used to call at Santa’s house every Christmas morning to collect his present in person. One year, when he didn’t get the Sylvanian Families picnic set he’d asked for, he threw a massive tantrum and lapsed into sullen silence. “Don’t be such a child, Harold!” hissed his wife, Lady Antonia Fraser. “My mother was right. You really are dangerous to know!”