Greenwood Dark

A Traveller's Poems
By Christopher Somerville

Christopher Somerville has been walking, exploring and writing all over the world for almost 30 years, and these poems are the fruits of those long experience. Read individually, they are a true traveller's observations of people, places, moods and reflections as they strike him. As a collection they take the reader on a vivid, moving and unforgettable adventure through Britain and Ireland, and on across the wider world. The poet sets his work in context with short prose descriptions of the circumstances in which each poem came to be written.

'Christopher Somerville is well known as a travel writer of distinction,...[he] is a rambler, a wayfarer, a traveller of byways that lead him to discover matters of interest in unexpected places. In this he resembles the poet and travel writer Edward Thomas, who could find poetry in a clump of nettles or an unwonted railway halt, and whose spirit is invoked several times in Greenwood Dark.'

-Ciaran Carson, The Daily Telegraph

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Christopher Somerville  is a writer, journalist, presenter and the author of many books. He has been Walking Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,featuring 15 years of 'Walk of the Month'. He has devised and presented over 100 'Somerville's Walks' for Anglia Television and 'Coast' for the BBC, and has recently published Christopher Somerville's 100 Best Walks (Haus Publishing 2009) and The Golden Step (Haus Publishing 2007)