The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar historically brings April showers, sunshine, touches of warmth and bursts of colour from tree and land. Buds, blossom, leaves, the great symphony of nature cascades across the landscape. Wildlife has new broods of life to nurture and provide for.

In the words of our classic poets including John Clare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sara Teasdale and a wealth of others comes sumptuous verse of all manner from the streets to the countryside, poems that describe our moods, feelings, travels and desires and many another thing.