This Common Uncommon by Rae Howells The Wasteland highly textured craft of a

highly textured craft of a poet at the height of her powers

a quest for sweetness

most perfectly in the metaphor of memory ' (Literary Review)

immune to “pragmatism like a ticket inspector”

unflinching collection of poems about girlhood

This Common Uncommon by Rae Howells The Wasteland highly textured craft of aWhen a local common is threatened with development, one poet explores its secrets, discovering extraordinary natural treasures and wonderful people fighting to defend them. Can they save this uncommon common? Everybody had written it off as waste ground. But when a planning application is made to build houses on this wild and green patch of Gower common, something magical emerges. From the star nose of the polecat and the bold zigzags of adders to the