Edward Thomas Fellowship

Promoting appreciation of the life & works of Edward Thomas through an annual programme of walks, poetry readings, lectures & publications. Join us!

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Pause a moment, and read...

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

• Edward Thomas •

[Discover War Poets @war_poets]

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?

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

“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

[Jeremy Mitchell @mitchjer03]

These delightful books, and much more, are now in stock in the Edward Thomas Study Centre at @PfieldMuseum. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesdays and Thursdays between 10 am and 3.30 pm.
https://t.co/EvthtBFIFK

[Discover War Poets @war_poets]

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'

[Discover War Poets @war_poets]

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’

[Mary Rensten @MaryRensten]

Another great SWWJ Poetry workshop with @ClaireDyer1 . Poems about place; arriving and leaving. Including work by Edward Thomas and SWWJ poets Siobhan Fennell and Vivien Brown. @swwj @TheWritersGuild

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

Our latest author @jamesmcconachi1 lists his wide-ranging influences as Shakespeare, Heaney, Edward Thomas, Wendell Berry, Orwell, Sharon Olds and Lorca. 🖊️ 💎
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https://t.co/ZT4YKs2DuR

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

• Edward Thomas •

[Edward Thomas Fellowship @EdwardThomasFS]

@Elizabethyha Whereabouts in the book are you?

[Jeremy Mitchell @mitchjer03]

Ticket details for last two Festival events, a change of closing date for the Poetry Competition and some other news - https://t.co/2Wgx38xnZ7

[Discover War Poets @war_poets]

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.’

[Edward Thomas Fellowship @EdwardThomasFS]

@war_poets From 'The Gypsy' - written 22nd January 1915

[Tim Kendall @TimKendall70]

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.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Edward Thomas 🖎

[Donall Dempsey @DempseyDonall]

PAYING MY RESPECTS TO EDWARD THOMAS

shadow and sunlight
stroke his name
I trace it with a fingertip

@EdwardThomasFS

[Ellora Sutton (she/her) @ellora_sutton]

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🪻

[Jeremy Mitchell @mitchjer03]

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 @PfieldMuseum, for your contributions.