Mud and stars
Three poems by Jemimah Hawkes from her Royal Holloway poetry MA collection, Startled Body, focusing on natural sites
An illustrator’s eye
Wildlife illustrator Marc Dando on how the act of drawing can help us to 'see'
Rivers, rocks, air and rain
Three poems by Terry Gifford about journeys in air, water, earth and stone
A Proustian blossoming
Jane Brocket explores Marcel Proust's fascination with hawthorn blossom, the flower of May
Birth of a foal
Tricia Gibson spends days walking the open moorland of Dunkery hill in Somerset checking the free-ranging Exmoor ponies that live there.
One spring day, she witnessed the birth of a foal
Another Year
Three poems by Nicola Healey on seasonal displacement and discovery: brevity, regeneration and renewal
Three poems by Elspeth Wilson
New poems exploring what it means to live in a particular body and recognise its connection with the natural world