Ah Nature, ever the poet’s go-to when blocked. Here are some of my attempts to catelogue each red tooth and fearful symmetry.
Poems about Birds:
Aves Republica
Aves Unblazoned
Barrow Bird
Carol of the Robins
Corvus niger
Counting Magpies
An Estate of Builder-Birds
Estuary
A Halcyon Vision
How the Curlew got its Curl
Look to your Lesser Linen
Love Birds
A Malady of Arms
Mockingbirds
Peggy Picas
Plenty to Crow About
Ravencross
Summer Begins at Midsummer
Swan Song
These are the Beasts upon the Earth
Thunder Thrush
Urban Selection
Wet Rain & Dry Rain
Poems about the Countryside:
Brownfield
Dig
Dune
Endless Rolling Fields
Estuary
Everything from Shells
The Fork in the Road
Foxing Day
Fruits of the Verge
A Glut of Collectives Nouns
Groves & Thickets
Harvest Song
Harvest Traffic
The Horticultrix
Musings on the Nature of Hadrian’s Wall
Stonesand
The Tillers of the Ground
Traps
Poems about Dinosaurs & Reptiles (& Fossils):
Adders & Ladders
Ammonites & Moabites
Anti-Venom
Book-Nosed Lukas
Dino-Golf
Dürer’s-Rhino Syndrome
Everything from Shells
Jurassic Lark
London Pebble
Naming the Serpents
The Pillars of the Earth
Sleeping with the Armoured Fishes
Tellurians
Traps
Poems about Evolution:
All Life Is Here
And Saw That It Was Good
Armour
The Blacktop Jungle
Cold Fish
Evolution Chant
Do Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk ?
The Green & The Red
Life in the Colonies
Radio
There is no Plan A
Poems about Fishes & Other Sealife:
Ammonites & Moabites
Asterisks
Beside the Seaside
The Benthonaut
The Blobfish
Cold Fish
Cocky & Fishy
Estuary
Fish & Physics
Jellyfishes
Life in the Colonies
R-Type
Rockflower
Sonnet of the Portuguese
Swimming Head
Poems about Human Biology:
A-wub-duh-dree-furr
Anatamour
The Bug
Carriers
Darker Later
Glabrous Glands
God Bless You !
The Golden Future
Hairshirts
Human Nature of the Beast
Intwinned & Intwined
Lockdown Locks
Microbiota
Mine For Life
No Laughing Matter
Ode to Laze
Pens Down
A Poet to His Surgeon
Psycho-Allergy
Rhino Dancing
The Rhythm of Life
Sleep of the Blessèd
Soul Lights
Starve the Addiction
Sweet Placebo
“Tell me more of this Earth thing called kissing”
Thy Name is Edom
Twinge Whinge
Unhappy Feet
The Valentine Virus
Virgin Birth
Watching You Idle
We Are Legion
Poems about Insects:
The Ant-Days of Summer
Butterfly Bushwacked
Butyrumusca Getii
Exoskeletons
Flinders
Flymènco
Harlequins
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
Kosher Insecta
Mayfly Days
Monomorphic Adolescence
Munch Munch
Oak Apple Day
One Spot, Two Spot
The Pessimist’s Camera
Song of the Straight-Wings
Summer Guest
Telling the Bees
Unsigned
Poems about other Invertebrates:
Ammonites & Moabites
Asterisks
The Benthonaut
Cornucopia
Hundredfoots
Isopod Nod
Jellyfishes
A Landrace of Snails
Life in the Colonies
London Pebble
Nothing with a Face
The Pillars of the Earth
Pond Life
See, Elegance !
Slow Poke
Sonnet for the Portuguese
Wiggle Wiggle
Poems about Mammals:
Attacat
Balaam’s Asses
The Barons of the Jungle
A Cat in Hell’s Chance
Cattle Prattle
The Change
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
Cornucopia
Damnatio ad Bestias
Felis schroedingi
Foxing Day
Infestations & Negotiations
Longhold Tenancy
Mongeese
Sheep Mayn’t Safely Graze
Weasel Words
Where the Hounds Lie Low
Poems about Microbes:
The Blacktop Jungle
Everything from Shells
Four Thousand Million Years in the Making
Infestations & Negotiations
Lost Couplets from The Auguries of Innocence
Microbiota
Retro Virus
The Valentine Virus
Z. apocalypsus
Poems about Plants:
Balding Trees
Bashful Bulbs
Blackfingers
Brackicide
Brownfield
Butterfly Bushwhacked
Cherry-Picking
Cyclamens
The Dandelion International
An English Country Garden
Euphoric Euphorbia
Gordianwort
Hallmark Horticulture
The Hand Not Bitten
The Horticultrix
Kalanchoe
Know your Onions
Last in Flower
Lightweight Bulbs
Lilies of the Shallows
Mistlemass
Moveable Feast
Nicholmas Daisies
Nothofagus antactica
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
Oak Apple Day
One Plant’s Meat is Another Man’s Garden
Ophelia’s Pharmacy
The Other June
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
Pollarding
The Practical Gardener
Rhubarb Mutterings
The Root of All Evil
Schrödinger’s Cactus
Scorpion Grass
The Sisters McBloom
A Small Tragedy
Spring Pruning
Suburban Spruces
Summer Begins at Midsummer
Sun Serfs
Trees in Threes
Trumpet Solo
Tumbleweed
Wearing White for Eastertide
Weedfingers
Poems about Spiders:
Arachnophilia
Arachubiquita
Daddy Longlegs
Epeira
I Spied a Spider
Moult Litter
Poisonhead
Spiders, Incidentally
Poems about the Weather & the Seasons:
April Smarts
Autumn Layers
Charge
Day of the Dead
Downpour
Easter Rising
An Estate of Builder-Birds
The First Bounce of Spring
The 1st Day of Autumn
Forever Autumn
Furtive Fog
Gods’ Breath
Heavy Weather
The Horticultrix
How the Curlew got its Curl
Inbetween-Rain
Just January
Last in Flower
Lift Thou Up Thy Rod
The Longest Day of the Year
The Name of the Wind
Nicholmas Daisies
Oak Apple Day
Open Season
Purple in May
Revolution of the Seasons
Season’s Fleetings
Snow Angels
Snowfall in London
Song of Summer
Sparkle in the Rain
Sprung
Storm Warning
Summer Begins at Midsummer
’Tain’t the Season
Three Songs for May
Twenty-Eight Alone
Warm-Water Waves
Wearing White for Eastertide
Wet Rain & Dry Rain
A Year without a Summer
