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Haunting pages from the field journals of the poet Edward Thomas (1880-1917), with which I sat down at the Berg Collection yesterday. Ghost-prints of flowers picked 112 yrs ago; the tracery-work of pressed birch leaves, the vividness of field-notes (“glow-worm loaded with gold”).

Edward Thomas - 'October'

Edward Thomas lived in the Steep & Froxfield area for about ten years 1906-1916. The family came to send their two older children Merfyn & Bronwen to Bedales. Thomas did not teach at the school, but his wife Helen did some teaching at the Bedales junior school: Dunhurst.

Wonderful to pastry-and-panel with marvellous poets, including these lovelies, at the Edward Thomas Literary Festival this morning. Fascinating conversation about inspiration, art, the natural world, experience and imagination, and surrealism.

Today at the Edward Thomas Literary Festival, I got to see one of my favourite/most influential poems read by the author himself, Zaffar Kunial — such a playful poem of language and letters🪻

Wonderful first 3 days of the 2024 Edward Thomas Literary Festival. Great talks, discussions and wonderfully engaging, equally emotional, poetry delivered with passion by our participating poets. Thank you everyone, including the team at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery, for your contributions.

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PAYING MY RESPECTS TO EDWARD THOMAS shadow and sunlight stroke his name I trace it with a fingertip Edward Thomas Fellowship

It's publication day! Here is the sequel to my anthology POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (Oxford World's Classics, 2013). Let's hope that this one is the last in the series.

11 October 1914 Edward Thomas writes to his wife ‘I was meditating a poem about the gypsies by the roadside, their gramophone and cosy lighted tent so near wind and stars, the children searching for coal in the refuse of the old mine, and me faintly enjoying them.’

Ticket details for last two Festival events, a change of closing date for the Poetry Competition and some other news - mailchi.mp/67d58810dd6a/e…

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Our latest author @jamesmcconachi1 lists his wide-ranging influences as Shakespeare, Heaney, Edward Thomas, Wendell Berry, Orwell, Sharon Olds and Lorca. 🖊️ 💎 👇 blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentum-…

20 October 1916 Edward Thomas writes to his wife ‘I got a good haversack, so don’t you worry. If you get a pipe, get it at the Stores. One of the dark red French briars would be the best, and don’t think of paying more than 5 /- or 6/-…All is well’

Another great SWWJ Poetry workshop with Claire Dyer . Poems about place; arriving and leaving. Including work by Edward Thomas and SWWJ poets Siobhan Fennell and Vivien Brown. SWWJ The Writers' Guild

These delightful books, and much more, are now in stock in the Edward Thomas Study Centre at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesdays and Thursdays between 10 am and 3.30 pm. facebook.com/groups/1905582…

“Having begun to love you, I love you forever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself." ~ Thomas Hardy, 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑’𝑈𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑠 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw

31 October 1914 Edward Thomas writes to Robert Frost 'I have just made myself almost ill with thinking hard for an hour,—going up to my study and sitting there,—that I ought to enlist next week in town...I go on writing, unlike all the patriots'

21 November 1915 Edward Thomas writes ‘The Thrush’ When Winter's ahead, What can you read in November That you read in April When Winter's dead?