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The Edward Thomas Poetry Competition 2022 – Judge’s report now available

Published by Jeremy Mitchell on 21st February 2022

Jamie McKendrick’s report on the 2022 Edward Thomas Poetry Competition is now available and may be read in full below or through the Poetry Competition page where the winning poems are published.

On behalf of the Fellowship I would like to thank Jamie for his excellent report and also those Fellowship members who drew up the long-list of 50 from which the winners were selected.

Edward Thomas Poetry Competition 2022

Whittling the long-listed fifty poems down to twenty was a more painful process than I had imagined; then reading them all again to reach a shorter list of ten even more so.…

2022 Poetry Prize Winning Poems Announced

Published by Jeremy Mitchell on 15th February 2022

Edward Thomas Fellowship Poetry Competition 2022, the Edward Cawston Thomas prize.

The 2022 Poetry Competition winning poems, judged by Jamie McKendrick, have just been announced.

We were delighted by the quality and number of entries – over 480 – this year, and warmly thank everyone who entered.

The winning poem of the Competition is ‘Shadowland’ by James Driver. Joint second are ‘This’ by Kathryn Bevis and ‘Kaze no Denwa (The Wind Phone)’ by Theresa Giffard. Highly commended were Derek Sellen (for two poems), Bill Dodd, Lawrence Wray, James Driver (for a second poem.)

Jamie’s report will be published here in due course but in the meantime we thought you would all like to read these wonderful poems and join us in congratulating the winners.…

The 2022 Annual Birthday Walk

Published by Jeremy Mitchell on 5th February 2022

The 2022 Annual Birthday Walk will take place on Sunday 6 March, meeting at 10.15 am in the Car Park at Bedales School, Steep, Hampshire, GU32 2DG, for a 10.30 am prompt departure.

There is only ONE walk this year and further details may be found here or on the Birthday Walk page.

We look forward to seeing you on the 6th.…

The Edward Thomas Fellowship needs YOU

Published by Jeremy Mitchell on 25th January 2022

Edward Thomas Fellowship and Charitable Status

This item is similar to the one that was circulated in a recent eBulletin but as not all members receive this it is repeated here, with an important update about potential delays to our move to Charitable Status.

Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who either mailed or emailed in with their thoughts on the proposed constitution, which was overwhelmingly approved.

The next steps are to form what will become the first Trustee Board of the new Charity and which will be proposed to and voted on by members at the AGM in March 2022.…

Available Now – “Comrades in Letters”

Published by Jeremy Mitchell on 9th December 2021

“Comrades in Letters” is a new book being published by the Edward Thomas Fellowship about the relationship between Edward Thomas and Gordon Bottomley.

Gordon Bottomley and Edward Thomas were close friends for many years, from the late 1890s until Thomas’s death. The fact that they lived about three hundred miles apart, Bottomley in the Lake District and Thomas in the South, meant that they only met at long intervals, and that their friendship was conducted chiefly by correspondence.

We are beneficiaries in that the many letters of Thomas to Bottomley have survived. Those from Bottomley to Thomas are thought to have perished in the great bonfire that Thomas lit before enlisting. …

Edward Thomas Literary Festival 2021 – Recordings

Published by Jeremy Mitchell on 5th December 2021

We are pleased to say that, where available, recordings from sessions delivered at the 2021 Edward Thomas Literary Festival are currently accessible on YouTube by following the link here.

Further sessions will be added to this link as they become available.

Access to the recordings are free. If you have enjoyed listening to them and feel you would like to make a donation towards the running costs of future Festivals you may do so via the PayPal button below. The theme for the 2022 Festival will be The Woodland Life, which is 125 years ‘young’ in October 2022.

Thank you for your interest in the work of the Edward Thomas Fellowship and the independent Petersfield Museum

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Words into Wood – temporary price reduction

Published by Jeremy Mitchell on 8th June 2021

To celebrate the opening of the new Edward Thomas Study Centre, for a limited period (and whilst stocks remain) the Fellowship is pleased to make copies of Words into Wood available at a reduced price of £60 – to include UK postage and packing.

Further details and the ordering process are available here.

Words into Wood Book Opening Page …

The Edward Thomas Study Centre at Petersfield Museum is now open

Published by Jeremy Mitchell on 8th June 2021

The Edward Thomas Study Centre opened its doors for the first time on Wednesday 9 June 2021.

For further information please go to the Study Centre page on this website.…

Edward Thomas Poetry Places

Published by Jeremy Mitchell on 28th April 2021

Added today (28 April 20121) under the section External References / Related Themes, Edward Thomas Poetry Places – is a website set up to identify the places that inspired the poems of Edward Thomas and encourage people to walk in his footsteps. Through his published and unpublished writings, including his field note books and letters, as well as other contemporary sources, and also walking the walks that he did, it is possible to locate or identify more closely the places which he drew on for many of his poems. The website will be updated regularly with new posts on the locations of individual poems and the walks that can be taken around each.…

‘March’ – a reading with and talk by Matthew Oates

Published by Jeremy Mitchell on 12th March 2021

Join nature writer and poet Matthew Oates on Sunday 21 March 2021 as he reads and talks about Edward Thomas’ poem ‘March’.

Full details can be found on our ‘Events’ page here…