Poems Half-Dreams of Siren Songs – Johnathan Reid Just a cup – Joan McGavin Ascending Mullach Mor – Claire Booker Messages – Robyn Bolam Planet Zero – Kate Young Forest Culture – Lesley Cooke Ghazal: Fire – Sue Spiers June Gap – Rachel Bower Lament for a Lost Hare – Hilary Hares My body tells me that she’s filing for divorce – Kathryn Bevis Two Poems – Lydia Fulleylove A Breath of Fresh Air – Robyn Bolam At the bear sanctuary – Claire Booker Two Poems – Kevin Cahill Aground – Ronnie Smith The Snowy Owl’s Screech – Josie Mahmood A Field Guide for Young Naturalists – Patrick Osada Le Touquet Conundrum – Alun Robert Under Silver How – Sarah Doyle Marsh Running – Richard Williams Gilbert’s Garden – Kathy Finney Swallowing the Toad – Matthew Paul Lockdown – Sue Mackrell Bowing to the Water – Maggie Mackay Before the rockslide, 1982 – Maxine Rose Munro City Dwellers – Charlotte Fong No Show – David Ashbee We understand, Gilbert White and I, while in Selborne architecting – Marcelle Newbold The Hawthorn – Suzanne Iuppa Walking with Gilbert White – Barbara Cumbers Learning Their Language – Sharon Phillips Feeling Winter/Becoming Spring – John Lanyon A New Superstore – Guy Russell THREE CLIMATIC WORKS – Alan McCormick and Jonny Voss Breaking the surface – Jackie Biggs Developments – Colin Bancroft Lost River – Rosemary Appleton Defaunation of Character – Sarah Beauclerk The Curlew – Irene Watson This Was My Tomato Patch – Alun Robert Goldfinch in Holly – Lizzie Ballagher Late Blooms – Lisa Kelly You Mistake Yourself for an Allotment – Chrissie Gittins Shades of Summer – Kate Young Climate migrant – Juliet Fossey Not Yet – Lisa Creech Bledsoe A New Build on an Old Lot – Ruth Sabath Rosenthal Hoverfly Observing – Steve Xerri The Tern Warden’s beach-hut – Paul Green Flitting Days – Daphne Astor Thirteen Ways of Looking at Stone – Sue Burge Starlings – Jane Lovell Beyond the Window – Glenn Hubbard Upcycling – Andrew Howdle The Village Girl – Xiaoly Li High Speed 2 Limited – Duncan Forbes Gills – Hugh Greasley Flight of the Enchanter – Sue Davies Daphnoid – Joan McGavin A Prospect of Beech Trees – Stephen Boyce Two Metres Away – Angela Ward H2O – Isabel Rogers Touched – Jenny McRobert Notebook – Lynda O’Neill A Wedding – Kathryn Bevis Volume 5 – Richard Stillman Brockenhurst – Out Into Space – Lesley Cooke Gatherings – Steve Scholey Sparrow Haiku – Sue Spiers A Letter to Gilbert White – Robyn Bolam More than ‘structurally unsafe’ – S. A. Leavesley Wintering – Brian Johnstone The Village Show – Paul Stephenson True Builders – Lizzie Ballagher four hares – Sheila Lockhart Three Poems about Houses – José Emilio Pacheco translated by Cynthia Steele Windthrow – Zoe Karathanasi Map – Peter Burrows The Frog – Matthew James Friday By Churchgate Station, 22 August 1997, Mumbai – Susmita Bhattacharya Dandelion – Cheryl Pearson Siren – Mark Totterdell Mots – Rebecca Gethin 19 Paths Through Rectory Wood – Jean Atkin Buildwas – Cherry Doyle The Dreamworld Drips with Reality – Jane R Rogers Helvetia – Christopher Hopkins Echoes – Andrew Howdle Five Haiku, Illustrated – Caro Reeves South Downs – Pratibha Castle Binary – Ian Huckson Cinnabar Moth – Mary Robinson Still Life with Feathers – Patrick B. Osada A Vision – Kathryn Bevis A nightingale for Gilbert White – Jo Bell The Naturalist’s Summer Evening Walk – Gilbert White Unsettled – Robyn Bolam they lit fires, moved in close – Raine Geoghegan We Won’t Say Too Much About The Hats – Buffy Shutt New Arrival – Claire Booker Unwanted – Allen Ashley Pondskater – Christina Buckton The Gift – Gordon Peters Dark Feast – Martina Reisz Newberry Owlswood Park – Patrick B. Osada Your shadow at morning – Kathryn Anna Marshall One for the Road – Peter Burrows I should be howling – Janet Philo War Paint – Chris Hardy Sea gift – Harriet Jae Nesting – Keith Tucker Cleeve Hill – Zoe Brooks My Giant Bladderstone – Steven Luria Ablon A Better Berry – Duncan Forbes Lacerations – Gary Beck Evening Class – Sheila Saunders Nectarines! It’s a Heckuva Fruit! – Diana Rosen Bougainvillea – Harry Owen On Slicing a Quince – Steve Xerri No Ordinary Apothecary – Kate Young Forest Poems – Mel Parks City Foxes and She Waits – Annest Gwilym LEBANESE FOOD CENTRE, ACTON, NOVEMBER – John Lanyon Time after time the same bird is born from the flame – Anna Saunders Two Minutes Thirteen Seconds coming soon – Holly Day Tide Clock – Hugh Greasley Blackcurrants – Lizzie Ballagher Taste of Childhood – Shanta Acharya Pole Star – Kate Firth I, Elder, Animal – Alison Lock The Gift Girl – Michael H. Brownstein Jam Tomorrow – Eileen Farrelly Before the First Bite – Stephanie Stanton Aurelia aurita – Jackie Biggs Moules en Provence – Diane Mulholland Skirt – Dorothy Burrows Along the Road – Alison Brackenbury Song of Praise – Shanta Acharya Coots – Kim Ridgeon Northeast Corner – Gerard Sarnat By the River Dwyfor – Alison Lock Drawing #1 – MD Kerr Jazz Fox – Jo Young Bringing in the Shrimps – Kerry Darbishire A Fruit Basket – Jo Brandon Still the Apple – S.A. Leavesley Pumpkin Blues – Pratibha Castle daily dose – Hilaire Postcard from the Beara Peninsula – Kate Firth wild strawberries – Lisa Reily Three Poems – Peter Burrows The overgrown path – John Davies Fieldfares – Lizzie Ballagher Possession – Shanta Acharya Devil Day – Kathryn Bevis A Winter Gift – Kerry Darbishire The Whit-Horn is Calling – John Lanyon Our Own Turf – Sue Millard Wellington Square – Alison Brackenbury Polar – Geraldine Green Medlars – Stephen Bone Fruit in the 60s – Glenn Hubbard Greatfather Oak – David Batteiger sweet lemons – Lisa Reily Ladybird coming soon – Z D Dicks Homecoming – Sue Millard Instructions for Fallow Times – Hilaire Siesta at the botanical gardens – Mandy Macdonald Fall – Alison Brackenbury Stained Glass – Geraldine Green Gathering Mushrooms – Lesley Quayle What I found at the bottom – L. Kiew Fruity Competition – Kate Firth Roadside Deer – Elaine Baker Undertones – Alun Robert Zone – Sue Burge Leaf Spirit – Angela Ward Greek Sunset – Lisa Reily specifications for an orchard – Hilaire The Fall – Jo Brandon The Wood – Peter Burrows ’75 – Alison Brackenbury Biophilia – Jane Lovell The Gift – Matt Barnard Host – Sarah Mnatzaganian Fall – Lesley Quayle At the Meeting Place – Geraldine Green Rattus Rattus – Kathryn Anna Marshall Crumbs from the table – Finola Scott My America – Mandy Macdonald Strange Spring – Kate Firth Via-Vulpes – Sarah Doyle No Return To Varoşa – Alun Robert The Help – Elaine Baker The girl who can talk to birds – Finola Scott Kujjai – Rebecca Gethin The Teatime Tarzan – Allen Ashley The Disappearing River, Stream, Trickle – S. A. Leavesley The Yew Speaks On St Brigid’s Day – Kate Firth Breath Unspools – L. Kiew Elements – Rebecca Parker between the start of the pipit’s peep – Phil Barnett Ode to a Giant Waterlily – Stephen Bone Otter’s Back – Christopher Hopkins City Gull – Sarah Doyle Crackington Haven on New Year’s Eve – Kate Firth Nightlife – Stella Wulf The Jungle Rises – Jeff Schiff After Roger Deakin – Alun Robert Calla Lilies – Heidi Morrell Letters from Home – Kerry Darbishire Three Poems – Sharon Phillips Sognefjord – Maggie Butt Listen to the river – Christopher Hopkins Stream – Susan Taylor In the Siberian taiga – Rebecca Gethin Carnlough Bay – Rosie Johnston The Crab and the Gull – Diane Mulholland Recollecting Water – Mary Robinson A Stream in the Woods – Andrew Cochrane Beck Moss – Kerry Darbishire When the Dark Rain Blew Away Our Home – Michael H. Brownstein On the Towpath – Anthony Watts Beneath All This – Kim Ridgeon Reflections, Upwey – Sharon Phillips Winding through Elk Rock Garden – Diane Averill No Waters More Clear – Susan Taylor A Sky-Wide Russet Flock Ascending – L. Ward Abel Spring – Peter Burrows Nature’s Healing of Neuroses – William Ruleman Sea shanty for a ship in a bottle – Jenny McRobert Wild Strawberries – Kevin Casey Norwegian Wood – Maggie Butt Mayfly Rising – Helen Westcott Ikebana – Freestyle – Helen McNaughton Four Mornings – Lesley Quayle Sweeping the Sands – Peter Burrows The Drought – Carol Krauss The overripe apple drops – Diane Averill Stars in pocket – Christopher Hopkins such a pretty picture – Paul Robert Mullen Droplets – Sue Spiers birds knit my ribs together – Phil Barnett Seasalter – March 2019 – Rosie Johnston Cloudburst – Kerry Darbishire Lone Tree on Abandoned Pier – Jeffrey Yamaguchi I was paddling – Jeff Schiff Degrees of Twilight – Maggie Butt Song of the Naiad – Ide Crawford Overlooked – Rebecca Gethin Down here… – Don Thompson A Tree is Breathing – Jane Desmond Unheard in the Woods – Rodney Nelson Filthy Little Stream – Sarah Westcott Wildflower Reunion – R. Gerry Fabian To a Felled Tree – Karen Wolf Convict Weather – Kevin Casey Dragonfly – Jenny McRobert Notes from the Black Walnut Kingdom – Jeff Schiff Maiden Castle – Kathryn Anna Marshall somewhere in the countryside – Paul Robert Mullen Oak – Maggie Butt Petworth – Leanne Coombes Frog – Mark Totterdell In Praise of Hedges – Kerry Darbishire Three Poems – Hiram Larew Sycamore Gap – Zoe Mitchell Copsing – Yuan Changming Walking with the Wagons – Raine Geoghegan Wisht – Julie Hogg Estuary Heaven – Stephen Mead East Stratton – Georgia Hilton The Flight of Time – Lesley Cooke Dark Winter Skies – Andy Allan Cellar Dweller – Duncan Forbes The Day I Left Chicago – Michael H. Brownstein January Light – Imogen Forster A dendrological reaction to National Socialism – Ben Ray Tower Shell – Hannah Brockbank Bleak Row – Laura Potts Feather and Shell – Steve Xerri Ousel-Cock – Glenn Hubbard The Mandarin Duck – Matthew James Friday Crabbing – J. J. Shale At a year’s turn – Linda Goulden Lady of the Garden – Laura Potts INVASIVE SPECIES/NURTURE [HUMAN] NATURE – Gerard Sarnat Callipepla California – Stefano Bortolussi Desert – Louise Wilford Corvid Haibun – Elisabeth Sennitt Clough Wintering – Sarah Doyle Flying south – Isabel Rogers She was History – Clare Read Four Poems – Elizabeth Spencer Spragins Mallard – Ion Corcos Brown Dwarf Star – Deborah Harvey It’s a Flower on Chalk – Angela Ward Ensemble – S. A. Leavesley In the gloaming – Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon saturnalia – Paul Summers A charm – Rebecca Gethin Wildflo Wers – Allen Ashley nanna’s garden – Lisa Reily Cavity – Roger Bloor West – Sharon Phillips Villanelle for 1976 – Isabel Ashdown YaYa – Robert Hughes Rooks’ Flight – Alyson Faye Beside the Grave of Abram Wood – Frances Roberts Reilly Wild Things Arrest Me – Jake Aller The Trees – Kevin Barrett Walk to Wardour Castle with Stevie Smith – Helen Whitten In the wild – Donna Kirstein A Plea for the Salton Sea – Kimmy Alan The Great Banded Grayling Emerges in September – Glenn Hubbard ONNELLISUUS ON AIKA HIIHDELLÄ KOIRASI SIVULLA LUONNOSSA – Steve Scholey Climate Change – Ibrahim Salihu Inter-City Fox – Wendy Dishman Persephone Tastes the Earth – Ali Jones Urban Spring – Lynda O’Neil Enveloped – Joan McNerney Cheesewring – Serena Trowbridge Quilt me a blanket – Selma Carvalho The Glosters Return – Patrick Williamson BEACH WALK – Sue Johnson GULL TIDE – Anne Sherry Marlborough Downs – Michael Spring The Downs at Dusk – Kenneth Spring Seven Sisters – David Webb The Picnic – Alison Lock The clearing – Stewart Carswell Ansel’s Winter on the Merced River – Ruth E. Walker Cows – Mandy Huggins Murmuration – Gill Horitz kingf isher just – Mark Goodwin A line of Oaks – Samantha Jayasuriya Fielding – Patsy Rath aspiration – MC Thompson Rain Started High – Joan McGavin Coppicing – Ilse Pedler If Bees Could Talk – Sally Russell A Memory of the Hop Fields – Raine Geoghegan Caged – Stephen Boyce The Wood Near Brampton Ash – Robert Hamberger Elysium – Ibrahim Salihu Night Walk on the Yar Estuary – Lydia Fulleylove A Springless Future – Geoff Le Pard Sundews – Stephen Bone I Miss Making Maps – Matthew James Friday Magie im Lieblingswald? Wieso? – Ilse Cornwall-Ross A Planet Where – S.A. Leavesley Stockbridge Downs – Sue Wrinch Glimpses – Gail Aldwin 83 Shirley, Hampshire – Richard Stillman The Lungo Drom – Raine Geoghegan Starving after long rain, the barn owl hunts again – Robyn Bolam Foxed – Linda Goulden Greetings from the British Countryside – Allen Ashley park yourself here – Hilaire Rain – Thomas Tyrrell A Brief History of Forgotten Local Places – Elisabeth Sennitt Clough Pockets – Maxine Rose Munro Eclogue – Charlie Hill Debatable Lands – Kathryn Metcalfe November 1987 – Sue Spiers Scrumping – Mark Mayes Corn Dolly – Sarah Doyle Vixen – Hugh Dunkerley Star Well – Rebecca Lyon On moving sideways… – Hilary Hares Stories