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Having started with a list twice as long as usual, testament to the consistent quality of the issue, I shall content myself with saying that I very much enjoyed the poems of wild weather by Sarah Das Gupta and Andrés F Hernández León. Likewise those of wild places by Jenny Hamlett, Nirma Da Silva, and Frances Carleton, and of wild animals by Anna Avebury, Richard Stewart, and Jenni Wyn Hyatt. Then there were poems that took me to gardens of decreasing wildness by Stephen Bone, Denise Bennett, and Daphne Milne, and those leaving wild turbulence behind for ‘calmer waters’, both literally and figuratively, by Dan Crowley and Philip Davison. Finally, the spread of poems by Annest Gwilym covered all of the above bases and in the process offered fascinating insights into her work and life: an embarrassment of riches indeed! With my good wishes to you and all Dawntreaders, Wilf Deckner