The Wild British Bestiary: Timeless & Meditative Poetic Portraits from the Great British Wild
Summers’ poetry collection The Wild British Bestiary: Timeless & Meditative Poetic Portraits from the Great British Wild – is a lyrical five-volume series exploring animals across different landscapes of Britain. Each book pairs original poetry with evocative illustrations, capturing the voices of the wild in moments of survival, grace and vanishing beauty. The poems are written in a cadence that recalls the old oral traditions – litany, chant, hymn. Their rhythm and repetition across each stanza and across the whole series are not ornament but invocation: a way of calling the reader into stillness, into listening. Like the rise and fall of waves or the steady pulse of footsteps through wood and field, these verses are cyclic and meditative by design. They are a celebration and hymn to nature, written in reverence for the creatures and places that endure; in mourning for what is lost, and what we stand to lose.
Among the Ancient Oaks
Beneath the branches of the British forest, every creature carries a story. From the quiet persistence of the vole to the ghostly memory of the wolf, these poems trace the fragile lives that move through root, leaf, shadow and sky. Among the Ancient Oaks is a collection of tender, meditative portraits capturing the voices of the forest in moments of grace, survival and vanishing.
Across the Open Field
Between hedgerow and horizon, the countryside holds its own chorus of lives. From the lark’s rising song to the quiet stir of dormice and hares, these poems attend to the fleeting, ordinary miracles of the field. Across the Open Field is a collection of lyrical portraits honouring the resilience, fragility, and stillness of the pastoral wild.
Along the Tidal Edge
Where sea and land meet, the shore writes its shifting stories. From gulls and oystercatchers to crabs, mussels, and anemones, these poems follow the fragile chorus of the littoral world. Along the Tidal Edge is a collection of poetic portraits capturing the voices of the shore in moments of hunger, rest, flight, and return.
Into the Wild Night
When daylight withdraws and silence falls, another world begins. From owls, glow-worms, and nightjars to slow worms and badgers, these poems uncover the hidden presences of the nocturnal wild. Into the Wild Night is a collection of meditative portraits, attuned to lives that flourish in darkness and move unseen through the hours we call sleep.
Down into the Deep
Beneath the surface, where light fades and silence gathers, stranger lives endure. From whales and sharks to anglerfish, isopods, and the bioluminescent hunters of the abyss, these poems descend into the hidden realm of Britain’s deep waters. Down into the Deep is a collection of poetic portraits honouring the mystery, resilience, and wonder of the ocean’s furthest depths.
October & The Wisdom of Spiders
A tender autumn tale of loss, remembrance, change and carrying love forward in the season of renewal.
Meet October. She adores autumn. Always has done. She loves the colours, the conkers, the crunchy leaves, the cosy nights, the hot chocolate, the fireworks, the toffee apples, pumpkin soup and most of all her autumn birthday. But this year, autumn time feels different. It’s the first one without her Gran and nothing seems quite the same. In fact, October is certain she’ll never love her favourite season ever again. But autumn has more to teach her. About change, about love and about how the people we miss can stay with us in surprising ways.
Amid A Trillion Billion Suns
Amid a fragile and fleeting existence, an unlikely bond is forged. From this chance meeting - an unexpected communion, shared reflection, and navigation through uncertainty, fear and faith. A meditation on the interconnectedness of all things. A celebration of the solace of letting go, and an invocation for finding presence and purpose in every now.
Bumble Bum-Rumble
Playful, quirky, imaginative and irreverent rhyming picture story book series full of warmth and mischief. Celebrating friendship, courage, forgiveness, and finding joy, hope and identity in the most unexpected of places.
Bumble Bum-Rumble & The Great Hullapalooza!
Bum-Rumble is famous
But what gave him his name?
A rather big problem,
Which he just cannot tame.
Well-mannered and polite,
Full of spirit and heart,
Though sadly he suffers from...
HUMONGOUS BIG FARTS!
A heartwarming and uplifting rhyming tale of friendship, forgiveness, and humongously big farts.
Told through rhyming verse, with full-colour illustrations throughout, Bumble Bum-Rumble & The Great Hullapalooza! is a funny, engaging, quirkily illustrated and memorable 40-page picture storybook that's full of hope, joy, and valuable life lessons.
A heartening story and future classic for all ages, though ideal for flatulence-obsessed 5-9 year olds.
Perfect for reading aloud together with little ones and with the wider family alike.
Bumble Bum-Rumble & The Toilet Tumble Through Time
In Book #2 in the series, Bumble Bum-Rumble finds himself the proud new owner of old Mrs Lyle's Bakery!
But Mrs Lyle, that little tinker,
She clearly forgot to mention.
The broken, leaky toilet...
IS A PORTAL TO ANOTHER DIMENSION!
Book No:2 in the Bumble Bum-Rumble Series.
A hilarious, heartwarming and uplifting rhyming tale of daring adventure, and diving through toilet time-tunnels.
Told through rhyming verse, with full-colour illustrations throughout, Bumble Bum-Rumble & The Toilet Tumble Through Time is a funny, engaging, quirkily illustrated and memorable 40-page picture storybook that's full of hope, kindness, joy, valuable life lessons - and a little historical trivia.
A heartening story and future classic for all ages, though ideal for flatulence-obsessed 5-9 year olds.
Perfect for reading aloud together with little ones and with the wider family alike.
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