Amy Gerstler's 14th book of poetry, Is This My Final Form? comes out in April. One of its poems is about this change of season, welcoming spring.

And yet you will weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sorrow's springs are the same.

Thomas started writing poetry shortly before he became a soldier in the First World War. He wrote Digging on 4th April 1915 – in the spring – and yet it is unmistakeably an autumnal poem.