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 ...
I love the colours and the sounds of autumn here. I wrote three versions and didn ... Fraser praised the cadence of the poem.
The poem moves from the early stages of autumn to the coming of winter ... to consider one of life’s big questions – why are we here?