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In a fast-paced world dominated by screens, instant information, and amidst a reading for pleasure crisis, Zaro Weil’s nature poetry offers something precious and needed: space to breathe. Her latest poetry collection, I Hear The Trees, the third in an …

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Bfk 272 May 2025

This issue’s cover illustration is from The First Year by Matt Goodfellow, cover illustration by Joe Todd-Stanton. Thanks to Otter-Barry Books for their help with this cover.

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