In A Year of Wild Verse, Kathryn Rossati gathers poems that move through hedgerow and shoreline, woodland path and open sky. Hedgehogs slip through dusk, moles work the dark soil, bats tilt through evening air, trees take the blade and keep growing. Survival here is not spectacle; it is daily, urgent, yet enduring.

Rooted in the Isle of Wight yet alert to the pressures shaping landscapes everywhere, these poems draw us closer to root and tide-mark, to wingbeat and breath, to the persistent pulse of the natural world.

Written during the long months of pandemic lockdown and created to raise funds for the RSPB, this year-long vow became both discipline and devotion. Week by week, poem by poem, Rossati, who is neurodivergent, kept watch for what adapts and what disappears. She honours what lives beyond human crisis and reminds us of what is at stake when we fail to notice.

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