A big thank you to kin’d and kin’d, the most inspiring composite eco-poet ever! Having had the joy of spending time foraging and being free to write wild poetry at Knepp wildland, we now get to celebrate our collaborative working in this lovely book, published by Elephant Press.
ouch
thankyou hurt
be paper lake
insect spittal spit
splash buzz fly
yellow
flesh seed fluff, nettle bank, stump branch
vetch
willow leaf thermals
storking
nettling
seeding
me
glass clover-twig
not-me—
from ‘ouch’, in Poemish of the Wildland, an anthology of poetry inspired by kin’d and kin’d’s eco-poetics course at Knepp Wildland.
Kim Lasky 