In my last article, I featured a poem by Philip Larkin which mourned the pollution and decimation of the English countryside.

Unable to be neatly boxed as a Georgian poet, a nature writer ... longing and loss projected onto actual terrain.’ Edward Thomas’ work is imbued with the rhythms of the countryside and ...

The day began at 5.45am with a reading of Edward Thomas’s poem in Farming Today. Thomas started writing poetry shortly before he became a soldier in the First World War. He wrote Digging on 4th ...