"Lines of Communication" - a poetry anthology

“It’s not life we want more of, it’s beauty”

-Anthony Anaxagorou

Lines of Communication - a poetry anthology

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Proceeds are divided between the charities Starlight Trust and 

Long Forest - Keep Wales Tidy 

This fifth charity anthology from The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press curates poems

on finding beauty in the natural world, beyond societal norms - the pigeons,

snails, rats and other creatures which are often overlooked.

Guest edited by writer & naturalist Bronwen R. Evans, and poet & editor Marcelle Newbold, they welcomed snapshots of unconventional beauty, and concise observations of urban and rural spaces.

This collection of poems brings together over 90 international voices, celebrating the theme of ‘lines of communication’. Original illustrations by Scottish artist, Colin Thom, and a foreword by Alix Klingenberg.

‘Reading through this collection in the crowded waiting room of a medical office, I found myself wanting to read each poem aloud to the patients there. Again and again. In a world so full of despair, of sorrow, this collection is a balm. These poems are tender, moving, asking the reader to slow down and pay attention. To love each small thing and remember that we, too, are small. That we, too, are loved.‘

-Suzi Q. Smith, author of Poems for the End of the World

´What a joy to follow these poets’ eyes to the overlooked, the avoided. To spend a moment with the toad and the cockroach, the seagull and crow, the solitary character of a telephone pole. To be shown again the power of attention to transfigure our world.´

-James A. Pearson, author of The Wilderness That Bears Your Name

‘This collection thrills me—poems that find and share beauty in places we might least expect it. Car parks. Mud puddles. An airport bathroom. Here we find inspiration in potato bugs, slime molds and the flight of bats—dozens of invitations to fall in love with the world, not an idealized world, but this one we live in with its banana slugs and fierce wind and concrete expanses. Lines of Communication helps us meet the same world in a new way—with eyes attuned to beauty.’

-Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of The Unfolding and host of The Poetic Path