Immerse yourself into a beautifully illustrated treasury of poems that celebrates the natural world around us.

Seven chapters explore different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains. This carefully selected collection will inspire you to explore nature through a poet’s eye.

There are celebrated poems by the greats – Keats, Yeats, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, John Masefield, Robert Burns, Dylan Thomas – as well as others by contemporary poets whose work you will want to seek out and explore further, including Carol Anne Duffy, Simon Armitage and Jean Sprackland.