Palaeopoetry: Poems for the fossilised world

Palaeopoetry is a lyrical excavation of deep time, a collection that sifts through stone, bone, myth, and memory to uncover the creatures who shaped the world long before humans learned to name it. Moving from thunder-striding giants to fragile hatchlings, from fossilised sorrow to scientific mischief, these poems trace the strange, tender, and often humorous ways life has unfolded across millions of years.

Here, dinosaurs are not monsters but kin; extinction is not an ending but a story written in ash; and the humans who obsess over ancient creatures become part of the fossil record themselves, briefly illuminated against the vastness they study. Through elegy, satire, narrative, and song, the anthology honours palaentological study.

Blending science with wonder and wit with reverence, Palaeopoetry invites readers to step into the long shadow of prehistory and listen for the echoes that still shape our world. These are poems of creatures lost and found, of mothers and meteors, of trackways and time; an exploration of what survives, what vanishes, and what we choose to remember.