And at last it’s here – A collection of nature poetry and poems in the here and now. Lose yourself as you turn over the pages.

Pre-orders from 29th November 2024 at a discounted price of £7 plus p&p for Limited Edition signed copies. Publication date December 13th 2024.

Each print copy order will receive a Free copy of my Stickleback also published by Hedgehog Poetry Press – while stocks last.

Proceeds will be donated to Cancer Research UK if purchased directly from me.

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“Patricia M Osborne’s new collection is deeply meditative, page after page
of soothing poems that calm the spirit. Be inspired by the yew, the silver
birch and the ancient oak. Find tranquility as you listen to the lullaby of
waves at the shoreline. Be hopeful as you breathe in the scents of heather,
rose and cinnamon. A prayer to the natural world, a copy should be at
every bedside.”
Maureen Cullen/ Novelist, award winning short story writer and poet.

“Nature’s Bookends is a hymn to our environment. In deceptively artless
poems, in which form and meaning are in perfect harmony, Patricia M
Osborne evokes the spectacle of nature, capturing its sensory delights that
have the capacity both to excite the observer and to bring comfort to the
troubled. At a time of climate emergency, this is a collection that provides
an engaging balance to the media’s panic-inducing portrayal of nature as
violent and destructive. This is nature in all its benign glory, offering the
reader an alternative compelling reason for ensuring we do everything
possible to preserve it.”
Nigel Kent / Poet and Reviewer.


“Encased between dawn’s mandarin sky and a beetroot-coated dusk,
Nature’s Bookends is a poetic whirling dervish, a cornucopia of nature’s
creativity and chaos penned against the nature of humanity itself and its
forgetfulness of what it is to simply rise, fall and be at one with the breeze.
In this plenteous offering, Osborne roots us in the soil so as to witness the
force of nature in place of the fight of the Earth’s weary inhabitants. This
remarkable collection, mindful of the ground, invites the reader to sink
into warm sand and be reborn.”
Damien B Donnelly Poet, Editor and Podcast Producer.

“Nature’s Bookends reads like a well-played day of raga music that opens
with sunrise. Poet Patricia M Osborne’s intimate collection guides us into a
recognition of our place in grander scheme of the world’s natural order.
We’re encouraged to breathe along with her, take in the colours and views;
let them hold us as we are meant to be held, with awe and care.
The treasures in Nature’s Bookends are plenty, and also beautifully
written. More importantly, easy to understand, because they’re our
treasures too.”
Karen Pierce Gonzaez/Poet.