Georgic Poetry

Georgic poetry is a subgenre of pastoral poetry, named after Virgil’s ‘Georgics’ written in 29 BCE. Instead of the idyllic pastoral life, georgics focus on agriculture and rural labor, emphasizing the virtue of hard work and the bond between humans and the land.

These poems are didactic, often providing practical advice on farming practices and celebrating rural labor’s dignity. Georgic poetry serves as both a practical guide and a reflection on humanity’s relationship with nature and the earth.

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Spring

by Jean Bleakney

‘Spring’ is an unsettling poem that explores the dangers of devotion and deferring happiness instead of living in the present.

The poem is focused on the relationship between humanity and the natural world, but does not romanticise this relationship.

It spills from sun-shocked evenings in March

and slit seed-packets, buckled into spouts.

She palms and strokes and shunts them, via heart-line;

index-fingers them to rows of labelled pots.

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February

by Gillian Clarke

‘February’ depicts a stunning and figurative encounter with Clarke’s familiar Welsh landscape on a snowy February day.

My car has grown

a woolly cover, yours a crown.

The doormat’s disappeared.

The hedge has grown a beard.

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