The Land Called Me Back
Poems from the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path
A collection of 18 poems written during Judith’s 2025–26 residency on the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path.
Searching, hard-won poems where worlds co-exist, where the line between the past and the present is as faint as a breeze, and sometimes we must follow the path backwards in order to find ourselves.
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Caroline Bird – The subtle poems in Judith Shaw’s latest gathering whisper secrets embedded in chalk landscapes and rural churchyards. Their honed silences spark into sudden vivid life - a yew tree threatening to ‘lunge off to visit the Long Man… live another thousand years’. Histories natural, cultural and personal intertwine in the lines of the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path, evoked in language alert to how we’re shaped by the layered richness around us: ‘By the grinding of time, I’ve become what I am’.
John McCullough – This is Judith Shaw’s first published collection. Her poetry has been published in numerous magazines, including Magma, Ink Sweat and Tears, Consilience, Black Iris and The Frogmore Papers. Her poem Fragile Bodies appears in Ten Poems about Getting Older by Candlestick Press. Some of her work and contact details are available at Judith Shaw Creative.