Note: In 2016, Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, the home of the Kermode or Spirit Bear, finally achieved protection status for 85% of the forest after decades of deforestation. Yet, despite actions and campaigns, it is predicted that, by 2030, there may be only 10% of the world’s rainforests left. It is estimated that only 400 spirit bears now exist.

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Late-blooming poet Louise Longson started writing ‘with intent’ in 2020. Now aged 60, she has been widely published both in print and online. She is the author of the chapbooks Hanging Fire (Dreich Publications, 2021) and Songs from the Witch Bottle (Alien Buddha Press, 2022).  She works from her home in a small rural village on the fringes of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire offering a listening service to people whose physical and emotional distress is caused by loneliness and historic trauma and abuse. Her poems are inspired by bringing together her personal and work experiences, often seen through the twin prisms of myth and nature.

Twitter @LouisePoetical