“The Allendale Wolf” was inspired by a photograph of a grey wolf that was killed on the railway in Carlisle in December 1904, some 30 miles west of the village of Allendale. I'd read an article on the possible reintroduction of wolves to the British countryside and found myself wondering about the wider implications of the species' return – about wilderness, and wild, and what, exactly, had been lost with the death of Britain's last wolf.

Thomas Farr is a British poet, much of whose work focuses on the intersection of nature, spirituality, folklore and myth. He appears in To Live Here: A Haiku Anthology, Heterodox Haiku Journal, Foothill Poetry Journal, The Waxed Lemon: Literary Journal, Aôthen Magazine and elsewhere.

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