Been engaged in a 'poem a day' challenge with friends. A short poem every day with no expectation of great literature. It helps to apply magical/symbolic thinking to the thoughts, events, conversations and objects of what might otherwise seem a mundane day. Here are a few.

An autumn shine and shore and shrine.

Amazing and inspiring evening with David Southall at Treadwells tonight talking about @HooklandGuide and its motto: Re-enchantment is Resistance. There are still good people in the world.

Found this holed piece of wood on the shore exactly a year ago today on my birthday and have worn it as a talisman for the year. Now I have to consider what to do with it.

Seed time

Snowshill Manor. Mad collector and cosplayer Charles Paget Wade filled a manor house with his collection and lived himself in a cottage next door.

'The Empty Boat is Flooded with Moonlight' By Dan Hillier

Sol Invictus, The Unconquered Sun. A a Romano-Celtic sun deity from the 1st cent BC to AD and found in Armagh. On display in the Sun and Moon exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.

Really delighted with today's find. A copy of Kathleen Raine's Collected Poems to 1980 signed by her and with a postcard she wrote inside.

Swallows, butterflies and bees in a Sussex church

The dead are parched too.

Spirits of the Lammas Sun #12 Oak gall ink on kraft card

A trip into the cool of the woods the other day.

Spirits of the Lammas Sun #2 Oak gall ink on kraft card

There is something uncanny, even eerie about the British countryside in the heat: the heaviness, the stillness, the vitality all burned away...

Absolutely delighted with my Right to Reside in Hookland and the Fragments book.

A squint moon above the sea.

This church door, made of boat timbers, in Warblington in Hampshire has opened for both Elizabeth I and Henry VIII

A sun scorched trip to Camlet Moat in Trent Park the other day. A magical, haunted, storied place.