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Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems, which map the border between the personal and natural worlds. Including poems by William Barnes, Robert Frost, John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Ashbery

Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Here, her thoughts on a host of subjects

As heard on BBC Radio 4, the brilliant sequel to Simon Armitage's acclaimed bestseller Walking Home - the story of his travels on Britain's South West coast. Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted

This collection of poetry explores the vigorous, persistent westward movement of people, of religion, of ways of life, even of plants and birds, across the American continent - evoking the progress of pioneers. Amy Clampitt is the author of "What the