This prose-poetry reader could prove to be one of the key events of the Anglo-Croatian literary exchange in 2025: in it, translator and poet Goran Čolakhodžić brings a selection of prose and verse by the English early modernist, Edward Thomas, one of the most important voices of British poetry and of the generation of artists who perished in the Great War, and a close friend of the American classic Robert Frost. The rhythms of his verse are quiet and unobtrusive; he was above all a poet of the earth, trees, birds, and the human relationship with nature, but his poetry is also characterized by subtle psychological insights and is overshadowed by the coming world conflict. In addition to tackling Thomas’s rhymed verse and selecting some of the most successful fragments from Thomas’s nature writing, travel journals and articles, Čolakhodžić also wrote a critical preface, notes and his own artistic text juxtaposed with Thomas’s – a diary of the arrival of spring in Zagreb in 2025, which highlights the similarities and differences between England and Croatia, the 19th and 21st centuries, reminding us of the impact that climate change and people’s problematic relationship with nature have on our daily life. The painter Iva Valentić provided stunning artistic responses to the texts collected here, connecting Far Eastern techniques with Western literature.