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Country diary: Even acorns grow strange in the misty gloom

The Marches, Shropshire: The larvae of gall wasps burrowed into these acorns in summer. Now they’re gone, leaving behind the weird, hardened detritus

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Country diary: Starting the day with a daisy

Frome, Somerset: Many still prefer their lawn to be unsullied by them, but I’m with the poet John Clare, who called them a ‘happy flower’

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Poem of the week: The old pond full of flags and fenced around … by John Clare

A closely observed country scene teems with the vitality of early summer

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A walk with Romans and ghosts on the Great North Road

Tracing part of an ancient highway in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire – now the A1 – proves rich in stories going back 2,000 years

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When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley – thrilling leaps of imagination

An impressive collection of poems – largely set in industrial wastelands and musing on time and distance – makes the mundane magical

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‘A force for everything he represented’: Ronald Blythe’s home to become nature reserve

The Akenfield writer’s ancient Essex farmhouse will be opened up as a sanctuary for people and wildlife

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Britain’s public parks are a green lifeline – stop fencing them off for the summer

These spaces are crucial for our wellbeing, but cash-strapped councils are being forced to treat them as revenue earners, says poet Rebecca Tamás

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The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing review – an Eden project of her own

While a cast of literary heavyweights grace Laing’s account of her garden restoration, the real joys lie in her detailed description of the pruning and the planting and the soothing effect on her state of mind

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Kate Kellaway’s best poetry books of 2023

Here’s to a thrilling new voice, a spellbinding Scottish soap opera, an evergreen force of nature and a modern John Clare

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Enter the Water by Jack Wiltshire review – the company of birds

A homeless man journeys from Cambridge to the coast in the Leicester writer’s fresh, funny and serious verse narrative

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Poem of the week: To a Sparrow by Francis Ledwidge

This brightly observed study of a ‘sweetly impudent’ bird carries with it a distinct political edge

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Satanic mills and sexy acorns: the choir complaining about Northampton

From the terrible parking to the awful mural of Charles and Camilla, the Northampton Complaints Choir puts it all in song. Our man joins to vent his frustrations – and gets a surprise

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Ronald Blythe at 100: ‘A watchful, curious and gratefully amazed vision of life’

A life rooted in Suffolk has given the great nature writer Ronald Blythe a deep love of the countryside

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Poem of the week: Clock a Clay by John Clare

Clare struggled in the Romantic age, but this attentive study to a small creature leaves one dreaming of the hero he might have been in our era

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Roger Sales obituary

Other lives: First professor of English studies at the University of East Anglia

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The Slowworm’s Song by Andrew Miller review – failure and redemption

An alcoholic former soldier is tormented by his role in the Troubles in this beautifully written apologia for our common frailty

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