Greenwood TreesMarking the 800th anniversary of the Forest Charter, award winning botanical artist Christina Hart Davies celebrates our long relationship with trees. Since pre historic times they have provided us with shelter, fuel, medicine, food and even the air we breathe. They have tanned leather, dyed cloth and made everything from cathedrals to clothes pegs. We have told stories about them, admired their magnificent beauty and woven them into our spiritual

That does not mean we are only on the look-out for ëpoliticalí poems

Hull and around London to meditate in the places where the pain and grief of history is bigger than his own

Litherland is one of the finest poets I have come across in recent years

and we always will

something stifles my voice

writing in a range of styles and selected from all generations of short story writers and from all parts of the Arab world – from Syria

Mohamed el-Bisatie: Excerpt from his novel Clamour of the Lake

Often feeling like a ghost

but one which draws attention to the significance of Greaves’ practice in bringing together elements from visual resources that range across traditional African and Amerindian art and contemporary European surrealism

Landscapes in Wales also recur throughout the book

When Tereina was just a child

so many unfamiliar voices