James Crowden

As an anti-tank gunner with the 51st Highland Division John Jarmain saw action at El Alamein in October 1942 and then for the next six months he fought with them through the Libyan deserts, right up into Tunisia and then took part in the capture of Sicily
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Coastlines Chasing the Light Paintings by Michael Chappell Poems by James Crowden MICHAEL J CHAPPELL – Artistic Visionary Introduction by TANYA BRUCE-LOCKHART Friend and Trustee of Dorset Visual Arts A visionary, according to the Oxf
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Eat your words ! Poetry on a plate.. Here you will find Alphabet Soup and Elvers; Cornish Earlies and Borscht, Pistachios and Mussels, Gathering Mushrooms alongside a hostess trolley, Tripe an Cow 'eels, Sad Cake and Sloes, Trout Hatcheries and Meat Co
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The Bad Winter is a series of fifty poems about Dartmoor that starts with the bad winter of 1962-63 which was the coldest prolonged winter since 1740. The snow lasted for at least three months on the moor and many farms and villages were cut off. Woven in
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LEWESDON HILL lies poised like a wooded and mysterious Mount Parnassus above the small West Dorset village of Stoke Abbot. Lewesdon Hill the poem was first published in 1788 with instant success. The author, William Crowe, 1745-1829, the son of a carpente
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Catherine Simmonds has extracted these ‘poems’ from the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth and drawn out the fine lines of these observations and let them sing of their own accord - keen language, verging on haiku. The poems have an immediacy and freshness wh
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DORSET FOOTSTEPS is a series of linked poems that reach right across Dorset from Ashmore in the north east on the edge of Cranborne Chase down to Lyme Regis on the South Coast. During 2006 James Crowden was writer in residence along this route, the Dorset
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For many the slaughter of healthy farm animals during the Foot and Mouth outbreak of 2001, as part of a government sanctioned contiguous cull, was nothing short of genocide. True, the disease was virulent and widespread, but none of the lessons of the ear
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In 1998 the closure of South Crofty, the last working tin mine in Cornwall, brought to an end more than 3,000 years of history. This vigorous and detailed book records what it was like to labour hundreds of fathoms underground and it pays tribute to the m
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Bridgwater has an astonishing wealth of trading history and was for hundreds of years the only large port for most of Somerset. Trade was very extensive and there are at least a dozen other Bridgewaters in the rest of the world.
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Cider - The Forgotten Miracle is a witty, energetic and unforgettable investigation into the history of farmhouse cider. A fresh assessment of ancient traditions that have not only influenced the landscape for the better, but produced excellent cider into
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"Enjoyed it. Full of interesting effects... Unexpected things."
Ted Hughes

"...a lively and unsentimental picture of a rural area which is a model of its kind."
Sara Hudston - Dorset Evening Echo
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A year in the life of a casual agricultural labourer.. "The sense of a committed lived life behind the verse is very strong and appealing" Seamus Heaney
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