Poetry Walks

	At The People's Poet, we are committed to bringing poetry into everyday situations and we love to use poetry to enhance the enjoyment of natural and architectural surroundings. We are looking for more poetry for our - Poole Borders- walk. View poetry

	This Walk : Poole Borders
Holton Lee Poole Quay Poole Park A Wet Evening Poetry Walks Recipes
Please see the pictures below for a memory refresher or for inspiration to write about this beautiful part of Poole and Bournemouth. Streetmap link to Branksome and Alum Chines About the link area

We are in the process of devising some routes around Poole and its borders with Bournemouth and providing some pictures and some poetry to enhance those walks. We are also going to be adding some recipes inspired by the areas to the book, offered by our resident chef, Richard Markham.


Was this the bridge that Winston Churchill fell from as a boy?


The seagulls are a bit suntanned here!	A cloistered beach?

Views towards Swanage	Bright Beach Huts in Bournemouth

Chef Richard with wife Gina

We initially took this walk on a sunny day in late February when the car parks are free, the areas are almost deserted and the Spring flowers are at their freshest. Imagine finding wild violets amongst the ivy along the paths and catching a whiff of wild garlic (before it flowers and becomes rather more strong-smelling!) and wild rosemary in two varieties and colours among the sea breezes. Damp woodland and fungus in the still air giving way to brisk blasts of salted whirls. Standing tall on the bridges before stepping down to stare up at cliff faces. This is our Poole Borders walk and we invite your poetry to enhance the walk book, which will be the first in a series of separate books, which will eventually come together as a larger, complete volume. Please send in your poetry and we will select works for the book, to enhance the experience of the walks. Thank you. email me with your poetry here.

Mo Turner, Poole Poet for 2003, is working hard with us on this first walk project. Please see our events page for information about our next poetry elections night, part of the Poole Word and Book Festival.