This Common Uncommon by Rae Howells The Wasteland immune to “pragmatism like a

immune to “pragmatism like a ticket inspector”

including prose poems

a quest for sweetness

most perfectly in the metaphor of memory ' (Literary Review)

This Common Uncommon by Rae Howells The Wasteland immune to “pragmatism like aWhen a local common is threatened with development, one poet explores its secrets, discovering extraordinary natural treasures and wonderful people fighting to defend them. Can they save this uncommon common? Everybody had written it off as waste ground. But when a planning application is made to build houses on this wild and green patch of Gower common, something magical emerges. From the star nose of the polecat and the bold zigzags of adders to the