Month: October 2020
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A poem of mine for Halloween and the winter ahead: Wicked Winter Tree, published in Moondust & Mystery, Oxford University Press, 2002 , and in The Iron Book of Tree Poems, Iron Press, earlier this year. I also included it in my own book, Swinging through the Sky (now out of print but available second…
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Hocus-Pokus – Covid-Focused Halloween 2020 (UK) Please click image to enlarge. Scroll down for more. And a few more I’ve just thought up (lockdowns free up time for this sort of thing): Will we meet a spooky ghost? No, he’s locked-down, eating toast. Or nasty witches on their sticks? Maybe, but no more than six.…
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Halloween offers a great opportunity to get rhyming, with crazy magic spells. Not everyone wants to be turned into a frog – or worse, but who says spells have to be nasty? Here are some ideas for concocting happy, harmless wishes – if a bit daft, all in rhyming couplets. They’re fun for children to…
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Autumn can seem a melancholy time – even without a pandemic hanging over us – but autumn trees and leaves offer wonderful pick-me-ups. The darker the sky, the more fiery they can look, and the wilder the wind, the more carefree their movements. Then the sun slips through and the glow of gold, bronze, brass,…
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My poem, ‘What do you do on a nature walk?’ is published – for the 4th time! – this week in A Word Full of Poems, Dorling Kindersley. My contribution, among many others: What do you do on a nature walk? We have an adventure, that’s what – crunching through the undergrowth,…
Kate Williams 