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Nature poems
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- Book Synopsis
- More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated bookSeven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains. This carefully chosen collection will inspire you to explore nature through a poet's eye - the perfect antidote to 'times when the world is too much with us', as Wordsworth so beautifully put it.There are celebrated poems by the greats - Keats, Yeats, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, John Masefield, Robert Burns, Dylan Thomas - as well as others by contemporary poets whose work you will want to seek out and explore further, including Carol Anne Duffy, Simon Armitage and Jean Sprackland. Where poems have links to National Trust sites, footnotes are included to explain the connections.
- About The Author
- Deborah Alma is a UK poet, editor and bookseller. She has worked using poetry with people in need and taught at both Worcester and Keele Universities. From 2012, she has been the Emergency Poet, offering poetry on prescription from her vintage ambulance. She co-founded the world's first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire with her partner, the poet James Sheard, in 2019, which now has a second branch inside Lush Spa Oxford Street, London.She is editor of Emergency Poet, an anti-stress poetry anthology; #Me Too, which rallies against sexual harassment; a women's poetry anthology, Ten Poems of Happiness from Candlestick Press and co-edited with Dr Katie Amiel These Are the Hands - Poems from the Heart of the NHS. She is also editor of National Trust: Nature Poems. Her first full collection Dirty Laundry is published by Nine Arches Press.She is co-author of The Poetry Business School with Mark Constantine and is editor of the Poetry Pharmacy series with Macmillan, in 2025.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780008596026
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- National Trust Books, (13 April 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 160
- Weight
- 260 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 184 x 133 x 18 mm
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