Sample poetry
- After by Jennie Osborne
- After the Uffizi by Christopher North
- Another year by Janet Loverseed
- As we leave the woods by Jan Harris
- Ascending by Jennie Osborne
- At the crossroads by Melanie Penycate
- At the Festival of Texts by Mary Maher
- At Twyford Station by Joan McGavin
- August Pleasureboats by Diane Tang
- Before by Simon Richey
- Behaviour patterns by Andrew Nightingale
- Berners’ Doves by Christopher North
- beyond the forest by Caroline Carver
- Brother Slug by Anthony Watts
- By the Way by Elisabeth Rowe
- Captain by Hilary Elfick
- Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, J S Bach by Helen Overell
- Come in by Angela Stoner
- Coppice by Jean Atkin
- Dipping the Sheep in a Rainbow by Susan Taylor
- Edward Thomas’s watch by David Broadbridge
- Extract from Littoral by Giles Goodland
- Eyeless in Didcot by John Daniel
- Fairy Godmother by Ann Kelley
- Fat cat by Elisabeth Rowe
- Feather by Mary Robinson
- Fr Meslier on his book by A C Clarke
- Free Fall by Sue Davies
- Frost Hollow by Mandy Pannett
- Goats by Simon Williams
- Goodbye, Islands by Will Daunt
- Grace for Granted by Christine Whittemore
- Gran’s Cosmetic by Bill Headdon
- Grandparents by James Cole
- Haiku by Susan Taylor
- Hard work by R V Bailey
- He left by Denise Bennett
- Heat Seekers by Christopher Cook
- Heatwave by Paul Surman
- Hotel with Health Suite by Ann Segrave
- Ice Queen In The Sauna by Elisabeth Rowe
- Icescape by Jane Spiro
- In New York by Antony Mair
- In this Bowl by Miriam Darlington
- Inverse analysis by Melanie Penycate
- Isolated by Chris Considine
- It’s always April underneath your arms by Ross Cogan
- Jalfrezi by Jenny Hope
- Laughter by Fokkina McDonnell
- Legacy by Wendy Klein
- Lizard by Caroline Carver
- London, after looking into Jung Chang’s Wild Swans by James Turner
- Long Mynd Sheep by Helen Kitson
- Looking Back Down by Charles Hadfield
- Love’s Camel by Rose Cook
- Making Hay on the Snowline by Patricia Leighton
- Manhattan Bridge Loop, 1928 by David Olsen
- Margery’s vision by A C Clarke
- Martins by John Stuart
- Moonshine by Susan Taylor
- Murmuration by Sue Proffitt
- Nana swears by Rebecca Bilkau
- Night Vision by Rebecca Gethin
- Nightscape by Anne Stewart
- Nightwalking by Ann Kelley
- Observed by A C Clarke
- Olive Harvest by Cora Greenhill
- On Rothco by Carol DeVaughn
- Opinion Poll by Marianne Larsen
- Otto Weiss’s Corner by Maggie Butt
- Panicked by Joan McGavin
- Passing Through by Ken Head
- Passionflower by Robert Cole
- pavarotti at the grosvenor house hotel by Sue Boyle
- Pied Wagtails by Mark Totterdell
- Pluto’s Secrets by Denise McSheehy
- proddable all over (excerpt) by Michael Thomas
- Proposal by Denise Bennett
- Pruning the magnolia by John Daniel
- Quiet Green Fireworks on July 4 by Graham Burchell
- Refuge by Glen Phillips
- Rembrandt’s Self-portrait aged 63 by Lynn Roberts
- Rockhammer by Graham High
- Salthouse by Robert Stein
- Salthouse by Robert Stein
- Sea Poetry by Anne Lewis-Smith
- Sharing Territories by Ron Scowcroft
- She Mountain by Susan Taylor
- Ski scene by Alwyn Marriage
- Slow Music by David Grubb
- Sonnet VI by Richard Skinner
- Speakers of Eyak by Simon Williams
- Stalin’s Desk by Ross Cogan
- Stars by Anne Born
- Swimming my way home by Angela Stoner
- The Art of the Handkerchief by Michael Bayley
- The cacti by Melanie Branton
- The Dreamfisher by Oz Hardwick
- The neck of him, watching the news by Rebecca Bilkau
- The Other Side of Sierra Aguilar by Terry Gifford
- The Party’s Over by Jenny Hockey
- The politician and the paparazzi by Hilary Elfick
- The Tub by Genista Lewes
- The Wall by Glen Phillips
- The Walled Garden by Sue Davies
- Tiger Dreams by Michael Swan
- To a Boy Making a Paper Hat by Dana Littlepage Smith
- Trajectory by Simon Williams
- Tsunami by Alwyn Marriage
- Twilight by John Torrance
- Ukelele baby by Ann Segrave
- Village Wedding Relleu by Christopher North
- Violin romance by Jane Spiro
- Watch by W H Petty
- What colour is Beatrice the rat? by Marie Marshall
- When African women laugh by Kathleen Kummer
- Woodlice by Susan Jordan
- Wren’s Nest by Ian Royce Chamberlain
- X-rays by Rose Flint