The Trawler 2020

These poems have been taken (trawled) from the Gloucestershire Poetry Society group FaceBook pages. Some of them are rough diamonds, still in need of cutting, polishing or setting, but never the less they're diamonds and of sufficient value to be included within these pages. Here are 100 poems (posted between January 2019 and May 2020) by 47 poets, many of them first drafts, some by erudite poets, and some by people who have just begun writing, but each poem has some element - style, voice, content or passion - that called to us as we read it.

We hope you'll enjoy these varied poems posted out of enthusiasm for the written word, some from as far away as New Zealand, Australia and the Caribbean.