Biography
Retired Countryside Officer. Worked in the South Pennines. Usually include photo/image with my poems reflecting the subject or landscape.
Samples
Vaccary Walls Stone lines veining the landscape Quarried slabs pulled from the earth Placed upright making a stone fence Enclosing green fields for Cattle and Sheep Dividing bog and tussock Residual hedge trees find purchase for roots Alongside the rough stones Where the valley gives way to peat hag and Bilberry A Buzzard overhead begins a shallow upward spiral High above the black walls He is spotted and quickly mobbed by Crows Soaring and then dropping slowly circling Like water swirling round a hole Moving off to the next valley
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Blog entries by Graham Ramsden
Windows at Horsehold (02/03/2020)
The sound of settling masonry (21/05/2017)
Stone Circle on Divock Moor (10/12/2015)
Summers End Turvin Moor to Cragg Vale (19/11/2015)
Picking snails by moonlight (19/11/2015)
Vaccary Walls (18/06/2015)
Sunken Forests (29/05/2014)
Poets Pathways (19/05/2014)
Over the Edge (22/11/2013)
Head of Steam Station Bar (16/10/2013)
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Comments
Thanks Greg I have always tried to include the natural world in my work.
Just wanted to say how much I like these two beautifully-observed poems, Graham. Your experience as a former countryside officer, I guess. You don't waste your words; your language is very exact. I like that.
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Ann Foxglove
Sun 3rd Mar 2013 17:42
Hi Graham - a very warm welcome to WOL. I enjoyed the wonderful density of the imagery in these poems. It would be lovely to see some posted in the blogs section - poems there seem to get read by more people, and hopefully appreciated too.