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Poem: Birdwatch Hour

Marking the end of the Big Garden Birdwatch run by the RSPB from 26th-28th January 2019, which asked members of

Narcissi Trumpets unpleated from a bud, held tight their heads an elegant stretch their stems slender necks, drifting birds

Having spent much of his childhood in the mountains of the Basque country, his mother a florist and a great

On Freedom When I think of freedom I think of birds and words for we live in language and

The snowdrops are flowering and the green shoots of bluebells are up and even the odd daffodil is forming buds.

Errand What message is sent with drills not of seed corn but of nature bent to an unholy toil with

Alison Hargreaves (1962-1995) must count as one of the most famous people to have been brought up in Belper, Derbyshire.

There is something quite extraordinary about this collection of poems. Helen Mort’s poems are of landscape and language, the human

One of the things I like about George Monbiot is how well-researched his articles and essays always seem to be.

The warmer weather has meant that, like everything else, the bluebells are here early. They are already beginning to flower.

Snowdrops mirror a distant blizzard and flurries remind the early spring that winter’s realm has stretched its wings, the slender

First it rained a little. Then the sun shone. Then it rained some more; and stopped again. Then, would you