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Wednesday 1st November 2023

Raw beauty in the harshest season of the year

We barely notice hedges; there is something intrinsically marginal about them – although they are likely to seize our attention when they shine with blackberries or when a bramble snags a favourite garment. In […]

Thursday 14th September 2023

Poems old and new to take you from January to December

In our Almanac for 2024 there are twelve beautiful poems, old and new. We open with a poem that moves from mud and greyness to a vision of springtime-in-waiting, glimpsed in “a clutch of […]

Thursday 14th September 2023

Our much-loved original selection

A simple and almost old-fashioned word, kindness is an underestimated virtue in our increasingly hectic and impersonal world. These generous poems remind us that kindness can take many forms and that a kind gesture […]

Thursday 14th September 2023

Celebrating the power of small gestures