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 :

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:

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: