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Collection of Bones: The Whistling Cages by Iris Hanson
Seeking Renewal by Ian Huckson
The Star Shaped Scar by Alan McCormick
Valhalla by Max Dunbar
Of Fur Not Fowl (Or, How Not to Catch a Tiger) by Jeanine Pfeiffer
A Jungle Out There by Steve Carr
In the Lake District by Charlie Hill
Satsuma by Rachel Beresford-Davies
Apples by Maeve Bruce
Last in Line by Mangal Patel
Strawberry Girl by Allen Ashley
Seasonal Adjustment Order by S.A. Leavesley
I am a Rock by Alan McCormick
Reasons to Swim Inside the Sky by Alan McCormick
Baker, Emily and Me by Claire Fuller
Heading North by Stephanie Shields
The Girl in the Valley by Maggie Freeman
Old Men and the Sea by Barbara Lovric
Cheesefoot Head by Judith Heneghan
Just an old grey Volkswagen by Sandra Arnold
Feral by Alan McCormick
Wish You Were Here by Alan McCormick
Waving in the Wind by Deborah Freeman
Lucky for Some by Rob Walton
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
New Town by Calum Kerr
South Downs by Claire Fuller
Poems
Unsettled by Robyn Bolam
they lit fires, moved in close by Raine Geoghegan
We Won’t Say Too Much About The Hats by Buffy Shutt
New Arrival by Claire Booker
Unwanted by Allen Ashley
Pondskater by Christina Buckton
The Gift by Gordon Peters
Dark Feast by Martina Reisz Newberry
Owlswood Park by Patrick B. Osada
Your shadow at morning by Kathryn Anna Marshall
One for the Road by Peter Burrows
War Paint by Chris Hardy
Cleeve Hill by Zoe Brooks
Sea gift by Harriet Jae
Nesting by Keith Tucker
I should be howling by Janet Philo
My Giant Bladderstone by Steven Luria Ablon
A Better Berry by Duncan Forbes
Lacerations by Gary Beck
Evening Class by Sheila Saunders
Nectarines! It’s a Heckuva Fruit! by Diana Rosen
Bougainvillea by Harry Owen
On Slicing a Quince by Steve Xerri
No Ordinary Apothecary by Kate Young
Forest Poems by Mel Parks
‘City Foxes’ and ‘She Waits’ by Annest Gwilym
LEBANESE FOOD CENTRE, ACTON, NOVEMBER by John Lanyon
Time after time the same bird is born from the flame by Anna Saunders
Tide Clock by Hugh Greasley
Blackcurrants by Lizzie Ballagher
Taste of Childhood by Shanta Acharya
Pole Star by Kate Firth
I, Elder, Animal by Alison Lock
The Gift Girl by Michael H. Brownstein
Jam Tomorrow by Eileen Farrelly
Before the First Bite by Stephanie Stanton
Aurelia aurita by Jackie Biggs
Moules en Provence by Diane Mulholland
Skirt by Dorothy Burrows
Along the Road by Alison Brackenbury
Drawing #1 by MD Kerr
Northeast Corner by Gerard Sarnat
By the River Dwyfor by Alison Lock
Coots by Kim Ridgeon
Song of Praise by Shanta Acharya
Jazz Fox by Jo Young
Bringing in the Shrimps by Kerry Darbishire
A Fruit Basket by Jo Brandon
Still the Apple by S.A. Leavesley
Pumpkin Blues by Pratibha Castle
daily dose by Hilaire
Postcard from the Beara Peninsula by Kate Firth
wild strawberries by Lisa Reily
Three Poems by Peter Burrows
The overgrown path by John Davies
Fieldfares by Lizzie Ballagher
Possession by Shanta Acharya
Devil Day by Kathryn Bevis
A Winter Gift by Kerry Darbishire
The Whit-Horn is Calling by John Lanyon
Our Own Turf by Sue Millard
Wellington Square by Alison Brackenbury
Polar by Geraldine Green
Medlars by Stephen Bone
Fruit in the 60s by Glenn Hubbard
Greatfather Oak by David Batteiger
sweet lemons by Lisa Reily
Ladybird by Z. D. Dicks
Homecoming by Sue Millard
Instructions for Fallow Times by Hilaire
Siesta at the botanical gardens by Mandy Macdonald
Flash by Alison Brackenbury
Gathering Mushrooms by Lesley Quayle
Stained Glass, Cartmel Priory by Geraldine Green
What I found at the bottom by L. Kiew
Fruity Competition by Kate Firth
Roadside Deer by Elaine Baker
Undertones by Alun Robert
Zone by Sue Burge
Leaf Spirit by Angela Ward
Greek Sunset by Lisa Reily
specifications for an orchard by Hilaire
The Fall by Jo Brandon
The Wood by Peter Burrows
’75 by Alison Brackenbury
Biophilia by Jane Lovell
The Gift by Matt Barnard
Host by Sarah Mnatzaganian
Fall by Lesley Quayle
At the Meeting Place by Geraldine Green
Rattus Rattus by Kathryn Anna Marshall
Via-Vulpes by Sarah Doyle
My America by Mandy Macdonald
Crumbs from the table by Finola Scott
Strange Spring by Kate Firth
No Return To Varoşa by Alun Robert
The Help by Elaine Baker
The girl who can talk to birds by Finola Scott
Kujjai by Rebecca Gethin
The Teatime Tarzan by Allen Ashley
The Disappearing River, Stream, Trickle by S. A. Leavesley
The Yew Speaks On St Brigid’s Day by Kate Firth
Breath Unspools by L. Kiew
Elements by Rebecca Parker
between the start of the pipit’s peep by Phil Barnett
Ode to a Giant Waterlily by Stephen Bone
Otter’s Back by Christopher Hopkins
City Gull by Sarah Doyle
Crackington Haven on New Year’s Eve by Kate Firth
Nightlife by Stella Wulf
The Jungle Rises by Jeff Schiff
After Roger Deakin by Alun Robert
Calla Lilies by Heidi Morrell
Letters from Home by Kerry Darbishire
Three Poems by Sharon Phillips
Sognefjord by Maggie Butt
Listen to the river by Christopher Hopkins
Stream by Susan Taylor
In the Siberian taiga by Rebecca Gethin
Carnlough Bay by Rosie Johnston
The Crab and the Gull by Diane Mulholland
Recollecting Water by Mary Robinson
A Stream in the Woods by Andrew Cochrane
Beck Moss by Kerry Darbishire
When the Dark Rain Blew Away Our Home by Michael H. Brownstein
On the Towpath by Anthony Watts
Beneath All This by Kim Ridgeon
Reflections, Upwey by Sharon Phillips
Winding through Elk Rock Garden by Diane Averill
No Waters More Clear by Susan Taylor
A Sky-Wide Russet Flock Ascending by L. Ward Abel
Spring by Peter Burrows
Nature’s Healing of Neuroses by William Ruleman
Sea shanty for a ship in a bottle by Jenny McRobert
Wild Strawberries by Kevin Casey
Norwegian Wood by Maggie Butt
Mayfly Rising by Sarah Westcott
Ikebana – Freestyle by Helen McNaughton
Four Mornings by Lesley Quayle
Sweeping the Sands by Peter Burrows
The Drought by Carol Krauss
The overripe apple drops by Diane Averill
Stars in pocket by Christopher Hopkins
such a pretty picture by Paul Robert Mullen
Droplets by Sue Spiers
birds knit my ribs together by Phil Barnett
Seasalter – March 2019 by Rosie Johnston
Cloudburst by Kerry Darbishire
Lone Tree on Abandoned Pier by Jeffrey Yamaguchi
I was paddling by Jeff Schiff
Degrees of Twilight by Maggie Butt
Song of the Naiad by Ide Crawford
Overlooked by Rebecca Gethin
Down here… by Don Thompson
A Tree is Breathing by Jane Desmond
Unheard in the Woods by Rodney Nelson
Filthy Little Stream by Sarah Westcott
Wildflower Reunion by R. Gerry Fabian
To a Felled Tree by Karen Wolf
Convict Weather by Kevin Casey
Dragonfly by Jenny McRobert
Notes from the Black Walnut Kingdom by Jeff Schiff
Maiden Castle by Kathryn Anna Marshall
somewhere in the countryside by Paul Robert Mullen
Oak by Maggie Butt
Petworth by Leanne Coombes
Frog by Mark Totterdell
In Praise of Hedges by Kerry Darbishire
Three Poems by Hiram Larew
Sycamore Gap by Zoe Mitchell
Copsing by Yuan Changming
Walking with the Wagons by Raine Geoghegan
Wisht by Julie Hogg
Estuary Heaven by Stephen Mead
East Stratton by Georgia Hilton
The Flight of Time by Lesley Cooke
Dark Winter Skies by Andy Allan
Cellar Dweller by Duncan Forbes
The Day I Left Chicago by Michael H. Brownstein
January Light by Imogen Forster
A dendrological reaction to National Socialism by Ben Ray
Tower Shell by Hannah Brockbank
Bleak Row by Laura Potts
Feather and Shell by Steve Xerri
Ousel-Cock by Glenn Hubbard
The Mandarin Duck by Matthew James Friday
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
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
Scrumping by Mark Mayes
Corn Dolly by Sarah Doyle
Vixen by Hugh Dunkerley
Star Well by Rebecca Lyon
On moving sideways through Hampshire by Hilary Hares
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