Verses and poems
By Stella M. Turk MBE

I was delighted, and honored, that our renowned wildlife expert, friend and closet poet, the late great Stella Turk, gave me permission to publish some of her poetry on my web site, these are just a sample. Lots of people have contacted me to say how much they have enjoyed them.

During the Covid lockdown I put together all the verses of Stella's I could find and collated them in into ten A5 booklets and had a go at illustrating them, now they are also available in one hardback.

I’ve used an American publishing company called Lulu Press Inc (as I couldn’t find a UK equivalent) but from my experience their printers appear to be in Croydon, so despatch times are reasonable.

I have set the revenue that I could receive from Lulu to zero. Firstly, because I don’t want any tax problems with an American company and secondly to keep the price as low as possible for anyone that does want to purchase any.

1-10 Paperback booklets with links to Lulu Press Inc

Hardback (all volumes) with link to Lulu Press Inc

 

Sample verses (but not illustrations)

 

• Its doggerel verse: a poetic denial - 16th March 2008
• Foot and mouth virus - 8th June 2001
• On the Death of Raku - 13th June 1998
• Intention - a difference in degree - December 2002
• Beware of Extremes - November 2003
• Big headed - November 2003
• Cornish place names and surnames - December 2004
• Beetlemania - 13th May 2009
• Creative Sleep - 13th May 2009
• Bower Birds - July 2009
• An Immortal Shrub? - April 2009
• Centipedes and millipedes - October 2008
• Bamboos - November 2008
• Impossible targets - The stark reality (A pessimistic view) - March 2006
• Better to have little brain? - 16th April 2008
• Ode to the Helford River and its caring body, the HVMCA - 1st October 2000
• Sorting shells on the sea-shore - February 2000
• The families of European land slugs or three ways to reduce your calcium dependence - September 2008
• The Divine Hare - January 2005
• Cuckoos and Cuckoo Bees - 4th August 2008
• Unequal gazing - An ode to the female ‘Daddy Longlegs Spider’ - July 2008
• 'ts all up to the Sun - 24th October 1998
• We are the stuff of stars - 3rd January 1998
• Cosmic Travel Sickness - 8th December 1998
• Hubrist - 29th November 1998
• Sap Suckers - May 2008
• Springing Springtails - May 2008
• Freakish Garden Control - 26th April 2008
• Adaptive Radiation - 6th January 1999
• Walking the plank to extinction - November 2006
• From the dumb to the talkative - 20th July 2005
• Evolution and risk - June 2005
• The Startle time of hermit crabs - 15th March 2008
• Pollicipes pollicipes - Gooseneck Barnacle - 23rd March 2008
• The Nightingale sang (too loudly) in Berkley Square - 7th April 2004
• Sleepy brains- 14th January 2006
• Potted plants - 23rd February 2008
• Contemplation - ca 1944
• The Restless Rooks - 2nd January 1999
• Heavenly Bodies and Shooting Stars - 27th September 2005
• The Morning After - 7th January 1999
• My Wailing Song, Eleven dolphin, years - 2004
• The Cod Conjuring Trick - November 2005
• Life on the Ocean Wave: going nowhere in particula - March 2007
• The Stella-and-mouse game - January 1999
• The Untouchable (or pooper-scooper) Woodlouse - September 1998
• Cockroaches - September 2007
• Golden Wonder and Topless Beauty
• Sailing by the Wind - April 2005
• Ode To A "Slothful, Small, Simple And Silent Sea Slug"
• The Thieving Magpie - June 2003
• Binomial Nomenclature - May 2005
• Scientific Names for animals - March 2005
• The Explosive Shell - 30th November 1998

 

 

 

 

Jayne Herbert - Penzance - Cornwall