Auscultation by Ilse Pedler – A compelling set of poems from a striking new voice. Ilse Pedler is a prize-winning poet who writes from the unique perspective of a practicing veterinary surgeon. Her title: Auscultation: means listening and specifically, in medicine, listening to sounds that… Read More »Auscultation
Giving Voice by Ilse Pedler – a fascinating book of poetry with animals, and our love of them, at its core. The poems in Giving Voice celebrate the human-animal bond and also complementary therapies and the place they have in the treatment of animals. The… Read More »Giving Voice
Ilse lived and worked as a veterinary surgeon for 25 years in Saffron Walden before retiring in 2020 and moving up to the Lake District to spend more time writing poetry. She is widely published in magazines and anthologies, has been shortlisted in The Rialto Nature… Read More »Ilse Pedler
stare out of windows, checking the boundaries checking the boundaries. They have territories to protect, circling from the backs of sofas to front doors, to kitchens, whole worlds held in their flat eyes. Postmen breach defences, dropping offerings to be bitten, ripped and pissed on.… Read More »The dogs that chase bicycle wheels – by Ilse Pedler