04 Linda Saunders
Linda Saunders is a highly praised, prizewinning poet. She has been widely published in magazines and anthologies. Her first full-length collection was short-listed for the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize. Two further collections followed, most recently A Touch on the Remote...
03 Tick Rowley, Bard of Bath
Tick Rowley is a poet, storyteller, script writer, voice over artist and the 22nd Bard of Bath. She has a first class degree in Creative Writing; has been publish in several Poetry 365 Anthologies, Dark Poets Club magazine, as well as the Coffee Table Coven. She has...
Short Dull Days
SHORT DULL DAYS When the Christmas lights are stowed away secure for the summering months ahead we traverse the counties’ winding lanes greasy in their dankest, darkest bed. Verges blurred and drawn by dragging rain tramp their liquid mud for miles ahead. Distance is...
Declining December
DECLINING DECEMBER In the declining days of December the brevity of daylight is deeply drawn.On clear, bright mornings there is the hour of golden splendour,horizontal shafts gilding all in radiating wakefulnesswhile achingly long shadows draw and cling to the...
The Hedge-Layer’s Season
The Hedge-layer’s Season The season’s vagaries have run their course.Dusty April gave way to muddy May.Blossoms, free from nipping frosts yielded their fruitrampant with juice from a sodden summer.Fruit ripened in the long-shadowed daysof late summer and its...To Become A Nightingale
To Become A Nightingale Struck dumb by Universal Credit I entered the hedge-school of charity shops, prised apart jackets of musty spinneys on the men’s rail dense with tweed, leather, rayon, polyester looking for subfusc/olive – found two brown...Listen
Listen Exmoor Almanac The dipper that afternoon by the Exe threaded a high necklace of song above the river’s onrush. Dived in and re-emerged, shaking its wings clear of the water, sang once more, blink of...
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