A Seasons' Treasury

By David Donaldson

Follow the changing seasons through all their wealth of growth and flowering, through autumn’s fall, the withering of winter and all the challenging varieties of weather that can accompany these changes. These poems, written over a period of 30 years, are essentially poems of celebration: of immersion in the seasonal round that ‘resonate with quiet joy’ as one reviewer observed. ‘To walk through its pages is to be touched and refreshed by the dew...’ To encounter ‘widths of sky, or mercurial, brimming weather.’ The author’s companionable sensibility brings us a welcome breathing space at a helpful distance from the overly ironic or overly cerebral poetry to be found, too often, in literary journals. A blithe purity ushers through it. And, as in its Midsummer Garden it extends a joyful invitation to re-enter that purity ‘like...a winged seed.’

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Nov 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781398454217

David Donaldson

David taught on VSO in Sri Lanka and in a variety of educational settings. He also worked with homeless people in London before finding his way into twenty years’ work in Steiner education. Two Collections for children stem from this period and ‘A Treasury of Trees’, (2017) and ‘A Treasury of Plants’, (2020) for adults, (all published by Wynstones Press). 2020 also saw the publication of ‘Common Wealth’ (Matador), a panoramic collection of poems spanning prehistoric times to the present. ‘A Seasons’ Treasury’ comprises three privately printed collections here brought together for the first time and recording living through the seasons in rural Dorset and Herefordshire.

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A Seasons’ Treasury

David Donaldson

Austin Macauley Publishers

A Seasons’ Treasury

About the Author

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From All Year Round, 1989, The Gift of Frankincense, 2010

New Year’s Day

Spring

March Wind

Seagulls in Spring

Ash Wednesday

Bluebells

May Morning

Cows in the Meadow

Little Owl

Skylark

May Evening

Summer

Who Gives the Word?

Poem in June

June Night

Beech Tree

Summer Solstice

St John’s Tide

Midsummer

A Midsummer Night’s Wind

Midsummer’s Day

After the Storm

July Evening

From Song to Sustenance

August Hedgerow

Autumn

September Morning

Ploughing

Autumn Equinox

Autumn Poem

Michaelmas

Autumn Morning

Season of Lullabies

October

Time’s Up

The Fire’s Glow

Winter

Hallowe’en

November

Winter is Coming

Midwinter

Winter Solstice

From Seasons, Times and Places, 2016

Winter Solstice

Snow

Epiphany 2013

Trial by Water

More Floods

Sun in January

Walk in January

February

As the Frost Retreats

Light in February

Mist in February

Late Snow

Spring Poem

Compost Heap

Room to Breathe

Rainbow Portent

Death of a Fox

St. John’s

Sky Blue

Summer Morning Paddle

Summer Rain

Midsummer Garden

Summer Evening

Beach Scene

Origins

Shooting Stars

Autumn Equinox

Autumn and Sleep

Woodland Burial

Season of Remembrance

Autumn

All Saints’ Day

Uncollected Seasonal Poems

A Walk in January

Snowfall

The Golden Thread

No Shadow of a Doubt

Evening

About the Author

David taught on VSO in Sri Lanka and in a variety of educational settings. He also worked with homeless people in London before finding his way into 20 years’ work in Steiner education. Two Collections for children stem from this period and ‘A Treasury of Trees’, (2017) and ‘A Treasury of Plants’, (2020) for adults, (all published by Wynstones Press). 2020 also saw the publication of ‘Common Wealth’ (Matador), a panoramic collection of poems spanning prehistoric times to the present. ‘A Seasons’ Treasury’ comprises three privately printed collections here brought together for the first time and recording living through the seasons in rural Dorset and Herefordshire.

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David Donaldson 2022

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