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    • Baker, Emily and Me by Claire Fuller
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    • Old Men and the Sea by Barbara Lovric
    • Just an old grey Volkswagen by Sandra Arnold
    • Feral by Alan McCormick
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    • Waving in the Wind by Deborah Freeman
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    • A Point to it All by John Herbert
    • Milk by Rachael McGill
    • A Declaration by Mark Rutterford
    • In the Lap of the Gods by Susmita Bhattacharya
    • A new Purana by Victoria Bird
    • Tree Man by Amanda Saint
    • The Meadow by Elizabeth Baines
    • Cheesefoot Head by Judith Heneghan
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    • Crabbing by J. J. Shale
    • At a year’s turn by Linda Goulden
    • Lady of the Garden by Laura Potts
    • INVASIVE SPECIES/ NURTURE [HUMAN] NATURE by Gerard Sarnat
    • Callipepla california by Stefano Bortolussi
    • Desert by Louise Wilford
    • Corvid Haibun by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
    • Wintering by Sarah Doyle
    • Flying south by Isabel Rogers
    • She was History by Clare Read
    • Four Poems by Elizabeth Spencer Spragins
    • Mallard by Ion Corcos
    • Brown Dwarf Star by Deborah Harvey
    • It’s a Flower on Chalk by Angela Ward
    • Ensemble by S.A. Leavesley
    • In the gloaming by Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon
    • saturnalia by Paul Summers
    • A charm by Rebecca Gethin
    • Wildflo Wers by Allen Ashley
    • nanna’s garden by Lisa Reily
    • Cavity by Roger Bloor
    • West by Sharon Phillips
    • Villanelle for 1976 by Isabel Ashdown
    • YaYa by Robert Hughes
    • Rooks’ Flight by Alyson Faye
    • Beside the Grave of Abram Wood by Frances Roberts Reilly
    • Wild Things Arrest Me by Jake Aller
    • The Trees by Kevin Barrett
    • Walk to Wardour Castle Lake with Stevie Smith by Helen Whitten
    • Tide Clock by Hugh Greasley
    • In the wild by Donna Kirstein
    • A Plea for the Salton Sea by Kimmy Alan
    • The Great Banded Grayling Emerges in September by Glenn Hubbard
    • ONNELLISUUS ON AIKA HIIHDELLÄ KOIRASI SIVULLA LUONNOSSA by Steve Scholey
    • Climate Change by Ibrahim Salihu
    • Inter-City Fox by Wendy Dishman
    • Persephone Tastes the Earth by Ali Jones
    • Urban Spring by Lynda O’Neill
    • Enveloped by Joan McNerney
    • Cheesewring by Serena Trowbridge
    • Quilt me a blanket by Selma Carvalho
    • The Glosters Return by Patrick Williamson
    • Beach Walk by Sue Johnson
    • Gull Tide by Anne Sherry
    • Marlborough Downs by Michael Spring
    • The Downs at Dusk by Kenneth Spring
    • Seven Sisters by David Webb
    • The Picnic by Alison Lock
    • The clearing by Stewart Carswell
    • Ansel’s Winter on the Merced River by Ruth E. Walker
    • Cows by Mandy Huggins
    • Murmuration by Gill Horitz
    • kingf isher just by Mark Goodwin
    • A line of Oaks by Samantha Jayasuriya
    • Fielding by Patsy Rath
    • aspiration by MC Thompson
    • Rain Started High by Joan McGavin
    • Coppicing by Ilse Pedler
    • If Bees Could Talk by Sally Russell
    • A Memory of the Hop Fields by Raine Geoghegan
    • Caged by Stephen Boyce
    • The Wood Near Brampton Ash by Robert Hamberger
    • Elysium by Ibrahim Salihu
    • Night Walk on the Yar Estuary by Lydia Fulleylove
    • A Springless Future by Geoff Le Pard
    • Sundews by Stephen Bone
    • I Miss Making Maps by Matthew James Friday
    • Magie im Lieblingswald? Wieso? by Ilse Cornwall-Ross
    • A Planet Where by S.A. Leavesley
    • Stockbridge Downs by Sue Wrinch
    • Glimpses by Gail Aldwin
    • 83 Shirley, Hampshire by Richard Stillman
    • The Lungo Drom by Raine Geoghegan
    • Starving after long rain, the barn owl hunts again by Robyn Bolam
    • Foxed by Linda Goulden
    • Greetings from the British Countryside by Allen Ashley
    • park yourself here by Hilaire
    • Rain by Thomas Tyrrell
    • A Brief History of Forgotten Local Places by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
    • Pockets by Maxine Rose Munro
    • Eclogue by Charlie Hill
    • Debatable Lands by Kathryn Metcalfe
    • November 1987 by Sue Spiers
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