CRYSTAL, The Magazine For Writers
An A4, 40-page, print only, spiral-bound bi-monthly
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Welcome
Roy Hewetson: Serial
Linda Howe: Whatever the Weather
Nicky Wheeliker: Spring Comes to Ulley
Wendy Webb: The Heavens Priesting Peace. Gone
Wendy Webb: Polyamorous Flight of Bobolinks
David Norris-Kay: Dandelions
Michael Newman: From the Heart
Brian Webster: Is Smoking Grounds For Divorce?
Michael Newman: Josephine Bruce. Cut Flowers
Sue Hassett: A Yorkshire Winter
Nicky Wheeliker: Whatever the Weather
Bernard M Jackson: Jepson ‒ The Beeston Barber
Bernard M Jackson: A Blot on One’s Escutcheon
Richard Dobbs: Joke
Jill Rundle: The Unwelcome Visitor
Heather Buswell: Ivory Sonnet
Michael Newman: The Voice of Music
Ryan Coull: In the Room Above
Heather Buswell: Floods and Torrents
Peter Davies: O Sylvan Wye!
From the Editor: Haiku
Letters
Phil Wilson: Wordsmithing
Richard Dobbs: Wordwise
Heather Buswell: March into a Book
Felix Sefton: Nothing Special
David Norris-Kay: Dark Earth
Roy Hewetson: Outsider Chance
Brian Webster: Bread of Love
Richard Dobbs: The Beach Hut
Don White: Tales From a Solo Traveller
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www.bookguild.co.uk ISBN 9781915603975 NATURE £9.99
Veteran environmental tutor and retired countryside ranger Keith Taylor seeks out spiritual and visual riches as he undertakes a year travelling to locations that have always intrigued him or may offer a fresh relationship with the outdoors, both through his own seasonally aware eyes and those of equally restless colleagues.
Here, in The Seasonal Eye, he takes the reader through extreme parts of Britain, from the foot of an oak in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, to the caves of a Nottingham border ice age sanctuary, our coastlines and nature reserves now managed by our county naturalists trusts, and the varied terrains of the Cairngorms.
This inquisitive man invites us to join him in his quests to discover how the compulsion to merge supposition with reality provides a clearer understanding of the precarious yet adaptive environmental issues that surround us all.
An enchanting seasonal
tour of Britain, written by a retired countryside ranger.
This is a joint effort between Keith and myself. Through my word processing service (see inside-back page of magazine) I typed up a manuscript from handwritten notes. I truly enjoyed reading the resulting 242-page book. Christine
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