Wild Devotion - Ten Nature Poems

by Kathryn Bevis

The pages of this richly lyrical pamphlet are alive with plants and wild creatures, with birdsong and weather, and with the transformations of the changing seasons. Every poem offers a moment of intense looking; the vividness of nature is celebrated for its own sake and for what it might teach us about our own lives.

Kathryn Bevis was an award-winning poet whose work was widely acclaimed for its close and loving attentiveness to the natural world. There are poems here in which nature seems to speak with compelling directness, asking to be trusted and offering consolation:

“I am held by this place. Each leaf
promises the sunlight in her veins. Look.
There, where oat and velvet grasses toss
their fringe. There, where meadow browns flicker…”

These poems will delight and move readers who will find in their singing lines an irrepressible joy – a reminder of the poet’s wild devotion to the world she loved and so beautifully put into words.

Cover illustration by Sam Cannon.