Edward Thomas
And did those feet: 10 walks inspired by famous poets
Matching rich verse with great scenery, these strolls follow in the footsteps of some of our greatest wordsmiths, from William Blake to Carol Ann Duffy
Kevin Rushby
03, Mar, 2022 @7:00 AM
Roads taken: the Gloucestershire footpaths that were the making of Robert Frost
We follow the trails trodden a century ago by a band of revolutionary poets who fell for this corner of rural England
Liz Boulter
14, Jun, 2021 @6:00 AM
Poem of the week: The Owl by Edward Thomas
The melancholy cry sounds an uneasy reminder of all those excluded from material comfort
Carol Rumens
01, Feb, 2021 @11:00 AM
Poem of the week: The Thrush by Edward Thomas
A mellifluous lyric meditates carefully on what the songbird might be thinking
Carol Rumens
02, Dec, 2019 @10:00 AM
‘Herefordshire is just as lovely as the Dordogne’
For author John Lewis-Stempel, winner of the Wainwright prize for nature writing, Herefordshire is heaven on Earth
John Lewis-Stempel
11, Aug, 2017 @11:43 AM
Wainwright prize for nature writing goes to 'extraordinary book' on first world war
Where Poppies Blow by John Lewis-Stempel studies how the natural world helped sustain the morale of troops contending with the horror of the trenches
Alison Flood
03, Aug, 2017 @1:30 PM
Nash Ensemble/Brabbins review – Davies, Matthews and Holt take the modern temperature
Two new works and a London premiere, alongside revisits to three other pieces, rode the spectrum from elegant and concise to dark and ruminative
Andrew Clements
22, Mar, 2017 @12:05 PM
Poem of the week: All Day It Has Rained by Alun Lewis
The relaxed details of a slow Sunday at a military training camp in ‘Edward Thomas country’ mix with foreboding about what will follow
Carol Rumens
01, Jun, 2015 @9:46 AM
Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras review – the man behind the poet
Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s biography of the first world war poet claims to uncover the trials and torments that made him ‘the father’ of modern British poetry
Robert McCrum
31, May, 2015 @7:00 AM
Poster poems: Pathways
As the spring begins to beckon us outside, this month we’re on the trail of your metrical feet
Billy Mills
03, Apr, 2015 @12:00 PM
A landscape saved by poets
Fields have been preserved from polytunnels not because of wildlife or the view, but because Robert Frost and Edward Thomas once tramped over them
Catherine Shoard
31, Mar, 2015 @7:41 PM
Robert Frost's snowy walk tops Radio 4 count of nation's favourite poems
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening displaces verse by Kipling and Eliot as most-requested on BBC's Poetry Please programme
Liz Bury
26, Sep, 2013 @10:43 AM
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