These poems are written after Mary Oliver’s, A Summer’s Day.
In her poem Oliver asks big questions of the world and all the wild souls that inhabit it. She describes a Grasshopper as if in slow motion.
We have chosen an animal we know well and tried to do the same, asking big questions and describing small details.
Jemima, aged 12, has also done this with her poem, Kitten. You can hear influences of Mary Oliver and Jemima in our work below. Thank you to both poets.
