Poems by Jim Stewart. Edited by Sue Haigh and Keren Macpherson.

Jim Stewart's poems are products of a committed naturalist's eye; as detailed as field notes and yet impressionistic as a sketchbook. Few poets share such empathy with the natural world, and even fewer are able to balance the precise language of nature with warm, human vernacular.

Andy Jackson

From Tentsmuir to Titan, there is in Jim Stewart’s work a profound longing to learn from the natural world a way of responding to how we really are, rather than how we suppose ourselves to be, an ethical dimension which lifts his poetry from the proudly local or the carefully observant to the deeply spiritual.

W. N. Herbert