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Green Heart

Green Heart

Green Heart Written by Brinley Price   These poems celebrate St Nicks Nature Reserve and Environment Centre and much imagery is drawn from Ecotherapy sessions over the course of several years. Many of the poems testify to the power of nature to lift our spirits and...
Sundry Poems

Sundry Poems

Sundry Poems Written by Dr Mary Munro-Hill   Dr Mary Munro-Hill is a Quaker and an Anglican (“Quanglican”) who has served as an Elder in the Pickering and Hull Monthly Meeting and as Quaker Chaplain and Anglican Reader at the University of Hull. She became a...
Swimming Through Lime Green Willows

Swimming Through Lime Green Willows

Swimming Through Lime Green Willows by Richard Carpenter This collection is of poems written over several years. I have found it interesting to select ‘Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever’ and find it refers just as clearly to nursing a loved one suffering Covid, and the...
Dippy Thumbs a Lift

Dippy Thumbs a Lift

Dippy Thumbs a Lift by Richard Carpenter Your great-grandfather will have still been wearing shorts when he was taken by his father to meet Dippy in his Hintze Hall home at the Natural History Museum. Dippy’s retirement means you cannot repeat this tradition. Dippy is...