Special Collections and Archives

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

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

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c.1990

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Chronology of the Dymock Poets

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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

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

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

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

The Orchard, Grantchester, Centenary Year 1897 - 1997

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1997

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

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

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1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

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

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19 - 20 June 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

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(c.2000s) 27 October 1990

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photographer unknown. Photograph features Edward Eastaway Thomas outside Dymock Church

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

DP/BD/10/1/5
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(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

Photocopy of article "Looking for Gold" by Mary Hruska

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

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Itinerary and background to the Dymock Poets for Poets Walk

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

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes poem "Lament"

Article "Local People Show the Way" by Steve Platt

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March - April 1991

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

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
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(c.1990)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Describes The Daffodil Way walk

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

DP/BD/9/11
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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

Poem "The Golden Room" by Keith Armstrong

DP/BD/9/10
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1 October 2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

DP/BD/9/9
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2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

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c.2002

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Poems by Peter Wyton

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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

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

DP/BD/9/6
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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

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

DP/BD/9/5
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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

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

Typescript of poem "Words" by Edward Thomas

DP/BD/9/4
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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Poems "One Man and his Grog" and "Sergeant Bent's Cure" by Maggott

DP/BD/9/3
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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of various poems by John Wilton Haines from unknown publication

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(c.2000s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes:
The High-Road
The Black Country
Flowers
Late February
To Ladies
Blake
Alchemilla Alpina (The Alpine Lady's Mantle)
Bradley Hill
The Track Through the Forest

Photocopy of poem "The Old Nail Shop" handwritten by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/BD/9/1
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(c.2000s) c.1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Printed on A3 paper. Written at Greenway, near Dymock

Minutes for the Dymock Poets Exhibition Meeting

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12 June 2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil annotations

Agenda for the Dymock Poets Exhibition Meeting

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27 March 2006

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With ink annotations

Notice for a public meeting of the Friends of the Dymock Poets on 9 September 1993

DP/BD/8/1
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27 August 1993

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the "Malvern Gazette & Ledbury Reporter". Refers to another name for the Friends of the Dymock Poets, the Robert Frost Cottage Appeal Executive Trust

Cassette tape "Forest and vale and high blue hill: Poems of Gloucestershire arranged and sung by Johnny Coppin"

DP/BD/7/3
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1983

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Track listing:
In Flanders by F W Harvey
A Song of Gloucestershire by F W Harvey
Piper's Wood by F W Harvey
Fisherman of Newnam by Ivor Gurney
Cotswold Love by John Drinkwater
Briar Roses by Eva Dobell
Legacy by John Drinkwater
Warning by F W Harvey
The High-Road by John Haines
Field of Autumn by Laurie Lee
Cotswold Lad by Frank Mansell
Song of Minsterworth Perry by F W Harvey
Have Wandered by Leonard Clark
The Cotswold Farmers by John Drinkwater
This Night the Stars by Leonard Clark