Helen Bowles Myth and Legend fragment:

It sliced earth’s sleeping dark of peat

through moor grass browns and purples,

green further down and buried gold 

of autumn drop or yellow clay bed

“In poetry writing, I have always enjoyed the challenge of trying to connect with the spirit of place, and our human relationship with it, often within a historical dimension. The Templer Way art-poetry collaborative project supplies a wonderful opportunity for this in the stimulating cross-pollination of image and word.”

Ian Royce Chamberlain:

Virginia Griem Fora & Fauna fragment

At dawn they come from the sea

a thump of pinion and bone.

Alwyn Marriage:

Rosie Jackson Granite Stone fragment:

And Stone said …

Let me know the sound of things roaring.

Let me hear linnet and robin song. 

Let me come close to your home and chimney

Tom Woodman : Salty End fragment

You’d never guess that Estuary is a showgirl,

until she sashays and slips the river from her shoulders

Marc Woodward Remnants & Fragments fragment:

When they opened Springtide they found Alice,

still as a waxwork in a garden chair,

Susan Taylor

Susan Jordon Human Traces fragment:

One step along the way takes you back

to where you didn’t mean to go

Veronica Aaronson:

Susan Jordan:

Rosie Barrett:

Hélène Demetriades Salty End fragment:

Here, feet crack into bladderwrack, 

gnarly oysters, mud-pasted leaf-fall. 

A thick bevelled bottle base, the moon …

Hélène a psychotherapist and poet.  She has been longlisted in The National, short-listed in the Bridport, and highly commended in the International Fool for Chapbook Award, 2023. Her debut collection ‘The Plumb Line’ was published in 2022. She was winner of The Silver Wyvern, Poetry On The Lake (2022), judged by Robert Seatter, and her poems can be found in magazines and anthologies, both online and in print.

Anne Gwynn Canal, Clay & Templer Way fragment:

Victims now of damp and decay

Their surface flakes, forms scaly scabs

Decomposing, dying metal

Ann Topping:

Simon Williams: