Ten Poems from the Countryside Various Authors
These poems selected by Irish poet Seán Hewitt explore the countryside in all this variety. There are moments of pure rhapsody with larks singing overhead, alongside encounters with bad weather and poor soil to remind us that it’s not all bliss and beauty.
Together the poems capture the consoling rhythms of the seasons as they are played out in our rural landscapes:
“for as earth Rolls on her journey, so her little fields Ripen or sleep…” from ‘The Land’ by Vita Sackville-West
Poems by Kayo Chingonyi, John Clare, Helen Dunmore, WD Ehrhart, Vona Groarke, Jen Hadfield, Seán Hewitt, Claude McKay, Vita Sackville-West and Sara Teasdale.
Cover illustration by Sam Cannon.