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
Love Birds
A Malady of Arms
Plenty to Crow About
Ravencross
Swan Song
Poems about the Countryside:
Brownfield
Dig
Dune
Endless Rolling Fields
Everything from Shells
The Fork in the Road
Foxing Day
Fruits of the Verge
A Glut of Collectives Nouns
Harvest Song
Harvest Traffic
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
Everything from Shells
Jurassic Lark
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
Coral
Jellyfishes
Life in the Colonies
R-Type
Sonnet of the Portuguese
Swimming Head
Poems about Human Biology:
A-wub-duh-dree-furr
Anatamour
The Bug
Carriers
Darker Later
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
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
Flinders
Flymènco
Harlequins
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
Kosher Insecta
Mayfly Days
One Spot, Two Spot
Song of the Straight-Wings
Summer Guest
Telling the Bees
Poems about other Invertebrates:
Hundredfoots
Isopod Nod
Nothing with a Face
Pond Life
See, Eligance !
Wiggle Wiggle
Poems about Mammals:
Attacat
The Barons of the Jungle
A Cat in Hell’s Chance
Cattle Prattle
The Change
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
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
Microbiota
Retro Virus
The Valentine Virus
Z. apocalypsus
Poems about Plants:
Balding Trees
Bashful Bulbs
Blackfingers
Brackicide
Butterfly Bushwacked
Cherry-Picking
Cyclamens
An English Country Garden
Euphoric Euphorbia
Gordianwort
Hallmark Horticulture
The Hand Not Bitten
Kalanchoe
Last in Flower
Lightweight Bulbs
Mistlemass
Moveable Feast
Nicholmas Daisies
Nothofagus antactica
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
One Plant’s Meat is Another Man’s Garden
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
Suburban Spruces
Sun Serfs
Trees in Threes
Tumbleweed
Weedfingers
Poems about Spiders:
Arachnophilia
Arachubiquita
Daddy Longlegs
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
The First Bounce of Spring
The 1st Day of Autumn
Forever Autumn
Gods’ Breath
Heavy Weather
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
Open Season
Revolution of the Seasons
Season’s Fleetings
Snow Angels
Snowfall in London
Song of Summer
Sparkle in the Rain
Storm Warning
Summer Begins at Midsummer
’Tain’t the Season
Twenty-Eight Alone
A Year without a Summer
