A poem — “Words are world-makers” — Robert MacFarlane We need to teach the children the old words, words like brabble and grubble, twitter-light and clinkerbell; words which dance and trip and slip and drip like honey off the tongue Teach them that a hazy halo of cloud around the moon is called…

A braided essay — The Ridgeway Seen from a distance, the ridgeway resembles a long, grey, sleeping snake, Kipling’s “blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs”, or a tidal wave frozen in time. …

A micropoem created as an Instagram post —

Short form content — “Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will…

Micropoetry inspired by W S Merwin —

A poem — May arrived, a dream of green leaves. This year they have stopped ploughing and spraying the fields between here and the river and planted them with grasses and wildflowers. Out walking, I spotted a ladybird in the long grass, and it was as though I’d glimpsed rewilded beaver, stork, and bison, a display of life…

A poem — Trigger warning: this poem was written for a young friend and activist, who recently lost a 22 year old friend, also an ardent climate campaigner, to suicide. For Ella At times like these, words only come up short — not much to say in the face of such senseless loss, emptiness so…

A poem — We roll from one tender week to the next always just about somehow making it, glad of cupboards stocked with food, children safe in their beds at night. We paddle on, through storms and sun, though we never quite arrive — but there is a promise of freedom in the long grass as it moves…

A poem — “Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning. We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.” — Joy Harjo This winter, it rained in…