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More Inclinations is a followup to Natural Inclinations. Natural Inclinations was inspired by my appreciation of (and concern for) the natural world in all its elements. More Inclinations continues this. Lots of people have asked me if I’d ever written a poem about . . . (various animals, insects, flowers, etc), so a follow-up collection seemed a simple response.

Sample Poems from More Inclinations

The Marauding Raccoon
 
Nearby a woodland stream,
all but invisible amid the darkness
of a cloudless, moonless sky,
a masked, ringed-tailed marauder
sallies forth from its den
amid the hollow of a tree.
 
It will forage far and wide
within its familiar territory,
ever wary of larger predators,
skittish at the slightest noise,
a resourceful and industrious,
omnivorous creature of the night.

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The Chirruping Cricket
 
I sit on the porch,
surrounded
by the noises of the night.
 
A myriad of creatures
scurrying
in the fields all around.
 
A discordant backdrop,
invisible
in the blanketing darkness.
 
All save one harmonious sound,
rising
clear above all the others.
 
A nocturnal calling song;
distinctive
trills and pulsing chirps.
 
A chorus of male crickets,
chirruping
to attract a mate.

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© Kevin Cowdall

Purchase Links

More Inclinations (KIndle, Hardcover, and Paperback)

Natural Inclinations (KIndle, Hardcover, and Paperback)

Author Biography

Kevin Cowdall was born in Liverpool, England, where he still lives and works. In all, over 300 of Kevin’s poems have been published in journals, magazines, and anthologies, and on web sites, in the UK and Ireland, across Europe, Japan, Australia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, India, Canada, and the USA, and broadcast on BBC Radio, RTÉ Radio, Ireland, and local radio stations across the UK.

His 2016 retrospective collection, Assorted Bric-à-brac,brought together the best from three previous collections (The Reflective Image, Monochrome Leaves, and A Walk in the Park) with a selection of newer poems.

His 2019 collection, Natural Inclinations, features fifty poems with a common theme of the natural world.

His 2024 collection, 100 Haiku, is a celebration of the traditional Japanese unrhymed poetic form, mostly on the theme of nature, and was a #1 Best-seller on Amazon.

His most recent collection, More Inclinations (2025), is a follow-up to Natural Inclinations, and features fifty more poems with a common theme of the natural world.

His poem for children, The Land of Dreams, was published on the Letterpress Project website, wonderfully illustrated by Chris Riddell, and is available on YouTube.

Kevin is also the author of four novels, The Dinsdale Fox, The Ghost in the Room, The Ghost in the Shadows, and Cosgrove’s Sketches, a novella, Paper Gods and Iron Men,a short story collection, The Ophelia Garden, and a play, Sometimes . . .