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The
Inaugural Manning's Pit
Poetry
Competition
Third Prize, Adults
Mark Haworth-Booth
(Swimbridge)
photo by Tessa Traeger
Mark told us
I have
been very aware of the Save
Manning’s Pit campaign for a long
time but only visited it last year
- two fascinating guided tours
with Vernon Clarke, Christine
Lovelock and Steve Pitcher. Soon
after the first visit I wrote a
poem about a ‘well loved place’ -
Northam Churchyard, then full of
newly planted flower borders.
However, it was not a wild enough
setting for the Manning’s Pit
competition, so I wrote a
completely different poem in the
form of a series of online links
about many different aspects of
the threatened landscape. I hope
the links give the essentials of
the situation and convey something
of what is at stake. I loved being
able to use the wonderful names of
bats, wild flowers and other
residents of this special habitat.
Mark's poem
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