Earth prayers : encounters in poetry with the natural world /
100 poems which illustrate the beauty and awe of the natural world, collated by former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duffy.
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London :
Picador,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- The walkers / John Glenday
- Poem / Jorie Graham
- The snow man / Wallace Stevens
- Walking past a rose this June morning / Alice Oswald
- Heirloom / Kathleen Raine
- the earth is a living thing / Lucille Clifton
- Daisies / Louise Gluck
- I kicked a mushroom / Simon Armitage
- Moss-gathering / Theodore Roethke
- The blossom / Eavan Boland
- from Jubilate agno / Christopher Smart
- Flowers / Daniel Craig
- A lesson in botany / Robert Bringhurst
- Daffodils / Jason Allen-Paisant
- The spirit of the place / Fleur Adcock
- (O sweet spontaneous) / e e cummings
- Mississippi gardens / Stephanie Pruitt
- Grass / Carl Sandburg
- surely i am able to write poems / Lucille Clifton
- Pineapple / Olive Senior
- I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Walt Whitman
- Dryad / Sean Hewitt
- Alone in the woods / Stevie Smith
- The trees are down / Charlotte Mew
- Hawthorn / Zaffar Kunial
- Song / Seamus Heaney
- Swifts / Anne Stevenson
- 24.6.16 / Theophilus Kwek
- Peregrines / John Burnside
- Eagle owl / Vicki Feaver
- Brood / Mark Pajak
- Wild swans / Edna St Vincent Millay
- The blackbird of Spitalfields / Matthew Hollis
- Wings over Scotland / Kathleen Jamie
- Midwinter / Roger Robinson
- Parliament / Carol Ann Duffy
- For the house sparrow, in decline / Paul Farley
- Explaining an affinity for bats / A. E. Stallings
- The late wasp / Edwin Muir
- The red admiral / C.H. Sisson
- Leafcutter bees / Ruth Pitter
- 3rd July: gift / Sean Borodale
- The stare's nest by my window / W.B. Yeats
- The host / Imtiaz Dharker
- the beginning of the end of the world / Lucille Clifton
- Cold blooded creatures / Elinor Wylie
- from The fish, the man, and the spirit / Leigh Hunt
- Basking shark / Norman MacCaig
- Anecdote of the squid / Robert Bringhurst
- The starfish / Isabel Galleymore
- The snake / D. H. Lawrence
- A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson
- Toad / Norman MacCaig
- The moose / Elizabeth Bishop
- Fox / Mary Olivery
- The buck in the snow / Edna St Vincent Millay
- The deer / Jess McKinney
- Pigs / Les Murray
- The hunger / Frank O'Hara
- The donkey / Stevie Smith
- Hedgehog / Paul Muldoon
- Mole / Karen Solie
- Black bear in the grocery store / Tjawangwa Dema
- from Walking to the cattle place / Les Murray
- The mad cow believes she is the spirit of the weather / Jo Shapcott
- Neighbours / Gillian Clarke
- In California: morning, evening, late January / Denise Levertov
- Unbeliever / Frances Leviston
- There's a certain slant of light / Emily Dickinson
- Snow / Louis MacNeice
- Inversnaid / Gerard Manley Hopkins
- from The mores / John Clare
- Death of a field / Paula Meehan
- Innocence / Patrick Kavanagh
- earth cries / Jean 'Binta' Breeze
- Iceberg season / Katharine Towers
- The summit / Simon Armitage
- Everest / David Wilson
- The glory / Edward Thomas
- The last one / W. S. Merwin
- #Extinction rebellion / Pascale Petit
- Dust of snow / Robert Frost
- Water / Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When water comes together with other water / Raymond Carver
- Abstracted water / Roy Fisher
- What the Clyde said, after COP26 / Kathleen Jamie
- catastrophic devastation; damage complete / Clare Shaw
- Letter to Noah's wife / Maya C. Popa
- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
- Seascape / Elizabeth Bishop
- The starlight night / Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Star midnight / Elizabeth Jennings
- Stars and planets / Norman MacCaig
- A march with the moon / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Parallax / Don Paterson
- Plunder / A. R. Ammons
- Quartz / Jen Hadfield
- Prayer / Alice Oswald
- Postscript / Seamus Heaney.