Special Collections and Archives

Typescript of poem "Words" by Edward Thomas

DP/BD/9/4
Item
c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Sheet music for poem "Sound is a Memory" by Sean Street

DP/BD/9/5
Item
c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Music by Amanda Ballard. Dedicated "for Bob May and the Friends of the Dymock Poets"

Poems by John Drinkwater put to music by Colin Decio for "Cotswold Songs"

DP/BD/9/6
Item
c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Poems taken from "Tides" published in 1917
Old Crow
Day
May Garden
The Lechers
Plough
Cotswold Love
Venus in Arden
A Sabbath Day in five watches

Poems by Peter Wyton

DP/BD/9/7
Item
c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes letter to Barbara Davis accompanying the poems Fair Rosamund; A Right Evil Place to Approach; On Reading 'To God' by Ivor Gurney; Captain Pury's Lighthouse; Chagall in Tudeley; The Dauber's Tale

Printout of poems by John Drinkwater annotated "FDP AGM? Oct 2002"

DP/BD/9/8
Item
c.2002

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

The Midlands; The Patriot; The Cotswold Farmers; Symbols; The Fires of God; Memory

Rap version of the poem Adlestrop by Edward Thomas, written by Bill Greenwell

DP/BD/9/9
Item
2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Poem "The Golden Room" by Keith Armstrong

DP/BD/9/10
Item
1 October 2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Sheet music "A Second Dymock Trilogy" composed by Bob May

DP/BD/9/11
Item
September 2008

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes Elizabeth's Song by Lascelles Abercrombie; The Sun Used to Shine by Edward Thomas; The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

Poetry and Music

DP/BD/9
Subseries
c.2000s - 2008

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of article "The golden tide of spring: Walk Gloucestershire's Daffodil Way and follow in the footsteps of poets such as John Masefield and Rupert Brooke" by Julie Meech

DP/BD/10/1/1
Item
(c.1990)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Describes The Daffodil Way walk

Article "Local People Show the Way" by Steve Platt

DP/BD/10/1/2
Item
March - April 1991

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Countryside Commission News. Includes report on Windcross Public Paths and The Daffodil Way

Itinerary and background to the Dymock Poets for Poets Walk

DP/BD/10/1/3
Item
19 May 1991

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes poem "Lament"

Photocopy of article "Looking for Gold" by Mary Hruska

DP/BD/10/1/4
Item
(c.1993) 2-8 March 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Lady. Describes the daffodils in the Dymock area

Photocopy of article "Walk of the Month: The Meadows and the Muse" by Christopher Somerville

DP/BD/10/1/5
Item
(c.1993) 3 April 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Weekend Telegraph. Discusses the Poets Path II around Dymock and the history of the Dymock Poets

Photocopies of speech and photograph from the opening of the Poets Path II

DP/BD/10/1/6
Item
(c.2000s) 27 October 1990

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown. Photograph features Edward Eastaway Thomas outside Dymock Church

Articles and Typescripts

DP/BD/10/1
File
(c.1990) - (c.2000s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Poets Path Maps

DP/BD/10/2
File
c.1990s - 2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Poets Path I
Poets Path II
Dymock Village Walks
The Daffodil Way
Newent Town Walks
Walks in Dymock Woods
Map showing The Daffodil Way, Poets Path I, Poets Path II and Walks in Dymock Woods

Poets Walks

DP/BD/10
Subseries
1990s - 2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Programme for event "Ivor Gurney: a celebration of his life and work" at St Matthew's Church, Twigworth

DP/BD/11/1
Item
19 - 20 June 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Newer Numbers: Volume 1 Number 1 April 1940" compiled by Geoffrey Mason

DP/BD/11/2
Item
1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

A parody of "New Numbers" set in Much Marcle, April 1940

The Orchard, Grantchester, Centenary Year 1897 - 1997

DP/BD/11/9
Item
1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Rupert Brooke lodged at Orchard House in 1909 before moving next door to The Old Vicarage

Photocopy of "More About Me: Poems for a Child" by John Drinkwater

DP/BD/11/3
Item
(c.1990s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Originally published by W Collins, Sons & Company Limited, London 1929. With illustrations by H M Brock

Chronology of the Dymock Poets

DP/BD/11/4
Item
c.1990s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

From the birth of Edward Marsh on 1872 to the death of Eleanor Farjeon in 1965. Includes a select bibliography

"Poets and Paragons: Literary and Historic Figures of the Wye Valley" leaflet

DP/BD/11/5
Item
c.1990

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of review of "Once They Lived in Gloucestershire: A Dymock Poets Anthology" by Linda Hart

DP/BD/11/6
Item
c.1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Review by Hugh Denham, publication unknown. Includes article "Under an English Heaven" by Barbara Davis, refering to the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the publication of Brooke's poem "The Soldier" in Dymock in the New Numbers publication

Poster for "Once They Lived in Gloucestershire: A Dymock Poets Anthology" by Linda Hart

DP/BD/11/7
Item
1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Green Branch Press

Pamphlet "A literary trail around the Malverns" by Mary Constable

DP/BD/11/8
Item
1996

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Written for the 1996 Malvern Conference of the Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama. Includes section on the Dymock Poets

Leaflet "Literary Trail: The Royal Forest of Dean"

DP/BD/11/10
Item
c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes section on the Dymock Poets

Leaflet "The Ledbury Loop: A 17-mile rural cycle ride exploring the area's cultural heritage"

DP/BD/11/11
Item
c.2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Keith Smart Books catalogue for The Dymock Poets, Eleanor Farjeon and World War I Poetry and Literature

DP/BD/11/12
Item
May 2000

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Catalogue number DP12

"Welcome to Dymock" leaflet by Reverend R Legg and Barbara Davis

DP/BD/11/13
Item
2002

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Third edition. With information on the history of Dymock including the Dymock Poets

"Herefordshire Cider Cycling Routes: Ledbury" leaflet

DP/BD/11/14
Item
2003

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes information on the Dymock Poets

Publications

DP/BD/11
Subseries
1987 - 2003

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas to "Gwili" [John Jenkins]

DP/ETF/6/3/5
Item
(c.1990s) 27 February 1906

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annotated

Edward Thomas Fellowship Publicity Material

DP/ETF/8
Subseries
c.1990s - c.2003

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Thomas Fellowship Meetings

DP/ETF/5
Subseries
1977 - 1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Articles and Publications 1950s

DP/ETF/1/3
File
1950s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"Famous People I have Met: Rupert Brooke" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter, publication unknown c.1950s

Articles and Publications 1960s

DP/ETF/1/4
File
1965, 1969

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

"The Poets of Steep" by David Gill published in Hampshire, December 1965

Photocopy of "An Engraved Window to Edward Thomas and Helen his Wife" by Laurence Whistler published in Book Collecting & Library Monthly number 16, August 1969. Includes letter from Myfanwy Thomas explaining the origins of the memorial window appeal

Articles and Publications 1970s

DP/ETF/1/5
File
1971-1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of photograph of Mr and Mrs Uzzell

DP/ETF/9/10
Item
(c.2000s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown

Photographic calendar for 2006 "light & space: a selection of photographs by Robert Pilgrim"

DP/ETF/9/11
Item
c.2005

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographs of the English countryside accompanied by the poetry of Edward Thomas

Photographs

DP/ETF/9
Subseries
1978 - c.2005

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "The Shadowed Garden: The Dymock Poets and the Idea of Arcadia" by Seán Street

DP/ETF/1/8/1
Item
October 2003

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of article "Morale-raising radio from the depths of Broadcasting House" by David Millward

DP/ETF/1/8/3
Item
(c.2004) 5 June 2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Daily Telegraph D Day supplement. Discusses Jill Balcon's work as a continuity announcer at the BBC during the Second World War

Article "A Mole in the BBC: 60 Years On" by Jill Balcon

DP/ETF/1/8/2
Item
April 2004

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "Despatches: The magazine of the Friends of the Imperial War Museum". Discusses Jill Balcon's employment as a continuity announcer at the BBC during the Second World War

Photocopy of article "I once met... Robert Frost" by James Roose-Evans