This Common Uncommon by Rae Howells #Chileanpoetry meditations on the nature of

meditations on the nature of loss and trauma

He founded Forward Publishing in 1988 and subsequently the Forward Poetry Prizes and National Poetry Day

and how profound loss has shaped some of them

subtly erotic

and was educated in both Canada and England

This Common Uncommon by Rae Howells #Chileanpoetry meditations on the nature ofWhen a local common is threatened with development, one poet explores its secrets, discovering extraordinary natural treasures and wonderful people fighting to defend them. Can they save this uncommon common? Everybody had written it off as waste ground. But when a planning application is made to build houses on this wild and green patch of Gower common, something magical emerges. From the star nose of the polecat and the bold zigzags of adders to the