A Gift, Once Given, Must Not Be Spurned: The VERVE Anthology of Eco-Poetry comedy One thinks one knows where

One thinks one knows where that particular journey will end up

we chart the cross-cultural coordinates of ‘Newborough Warren with Map of Havana’ (‘and it’s this way to the Malecón /to look out over the Menai Strait’)

Heather Clark

Rather like Samuel Beckett’s Malone differentiated one experience from another ‘in the outcry without’ so Rushmer’s poetry offers the reader a ‘sky unloaded of its ghosts

A Gift, Once Given, Must Not Be Spurned: The VERVE Anthology of Eco-Poetry comedy One thinks one knows whereThis book contains the winning and commended poems from the VERVE Poetry Festival 2024 Eco Poetry competition judged, selected and introduced by Helen Mort.