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The Sky Beneath the Stone by Alex Mullarky book cover

Learning to Read the Landscape

I remember running through a field with my best friend on her parents’ farm when I was about ten years old.

Pied flycatcher

I took a path

A poem by Gosling Sike writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith

image of a grasshopper warbler bird singing  -copyright amy lewis

Spring

A poem by Gosling Sike writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith

Painted lady

Poems & prose inspired by nature | part 2

Gosling Sike’s regular Tuesday volunteer group from Carlisle Mencap had a break from weeding recently and worked with writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith to pen poetry and prose inspired by…

Mencap volunteer working at Gosling Sike

Poems & prose inspired by nature

Gosling Sike’s regular volunteer group from Carlisle Mencap had a break from weeding recently and worked with writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith to pen poetry and prose inspired by the…

Frost crystals © Jody Ferguson

A winter poem

The latest poem by writer in residence Susan Cartwright-Smith.

Osprey family

Poem: 'Soar'

Local writer and poet Catherine Morgan Wania, from South Lakeland, recently collaborated with Teazhy, a Nigerian poet, to write a poem about osprey migration from Cumbria to a place near Abuja,…

Teasels at Gosling Sike © Jody Ferguson

November at Gosling Sike

The latest Gosling Sike-inspired poem by writer in residence Susan Cartwright-Smith.

Autumn beech trees woodland - copyright Don Sutherland

Poem: 'Spiral Down'

A poem inspired by Gosling Sike by writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith.

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