The Verb: Woods, Weeds and Wildflowers: Nature Poetry

Ian McMillan showcases the poetry of nature. Since her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1996, Alice Oswald has been a major voice in UK poetry, with collections that frequently examine the natural world. In 2002 she won the TS Eliot Prize for Dart, a book-length poem telling the story of Devon's River Dart. Her latest collection, Nobody, is inspired by The Odyssey. Fiona Sampson has just published a new of poetry Come Down, which is situated in two contrasting landscapes in Hertfordshire and Australia. Her previous work, Limestone Country (Little Toller), is also rooted in place, telling personal stories about four particular limestone landscapes: a farming hamlet in Perigord, France, the Karst region of Slovenia, Coleshill, a rural parish in Oxfordshire, and Jerusalem