Poem: Birdwatch Hour
Marking the end of the Big Garden Birdwatch run by the RSPB from 26th-28th January 2019, which asked members of
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Jo Kirk
Jo Kirk: Narcissi
Narcissi Trumpets unpleated from a bud, held tight their heads an elegant stretch their stems slender necks, drifting birds
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Book Review: The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdalena
Having spent much of his childhood in the mountains of the Basque country, his mother a florist and a great
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Jo Kirk: On Freedom
On Freedom When I think of freedom I think of birds and words for we live in language and
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Jo Kirk: Seasons and Moons
The snowdrops are flowering and the green shoots of bluebells are up and even the odd daffodil is forming buds.
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A Poem For National Poetry Day
Errand What message is sent with drills not of seed corn but of nature bent to an unholy toil with
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Remembering the 21st Anniversary of Belper Mountaineer Alison Hargreaves
Alison Hargreaves (1962-1995) must count as one of the most famous people to have been brought up in Belper, Derbyshire.
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Review: “No Map Could Show Them” by Helen Mort
There is something quite extraordinary about this collection of poems. Helen Mort’s poems are of landscape and language, the human
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Review: “How Did We Get Into This Mess: Politics, Equality, Nature” by George Monbiot
One of the things I like about George Monbiot is how well-researched his articles and essays always seem to be.
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Poem: Snowdrops Mirror by Jo Kirk
Snowdrops mirror a distant blizzard and flurries remind the early spring that winter’s realm has stretched its wings, the slender
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The Month of The Floods: Jo Kirk
First it rained a little. Then the sun shone. Then it rained some more; and stopped again. Then, would you
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