The landfill site may seem like the most unlikely source of inspiration for eco-poetry, but for poet Susie Campbell it is a multilayered and storied place, with a history that stretches back to the first human settlements. And she isn’t the only one compelled to dig deeper – on their first visit, her poetic collaborator and rescue dog Charlie quickly unearthed barely buried waste textiles. “Perhaps I should have stopped him,” she wrote. “I helped him.”

The Surrey hills, where Campbell lives, are home to part of the Pilgrims’ Way – a mythological trail pieced together in 1871 from some of the ...

 

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