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Petersfield Museum presents In association with The Edward Thomas Fellowship The Edward Thomas Literary Festival 2020 (Digital) This three-day digital event (1st-3rd October) looks at the life and work of Edward Thomas. It will expand and explore not only his own literary work but how he has inspired others. His love of nature and his sense of place and belonging will also be studied. Over 20 renowned poets, writers, and academics are taking part. They will include: Daljit Nagra, Kathryn Bevis, Matthew Hollis, the Friends of the Dymock Poets and the Robert Frost Society. New poets such as Jade Cuttle who has recently appeared on BBC's 'The Verb' with Simon Armitage will also be appearing. Jade will be using new techniques she has devised to tune into 'the chatter of plants' in her fascinating session. The event also features ‘2 Poets, 1 Conversation: Andrew Motion and Michael Longley' as the…

Join Edward Thomas Fellowship member and nature poet and writer Matthew Oates as he reads and talks about Edward Thomas' poem 'March' on Sunday 21 March 2021, in a separate event following the Fellowship's AGM. Matthew Oates is a well-known broadcaster and ecologist with a particular passion for butterflies. What is perhaps less well-known is his nature writing and poetry which has been led by his interest in and love for the work of another nature and writer and poet - Edward Thomas. As many, particularly Fellowship members, will be aware, Edward Thomas lived from 1878 to 1917 and was killed at the First Battle of Arras on Easter Monday 1917. At that time he was a renowned literary critic and writer of what may be loosely termed 'travel' books, although they were perhaps more concerned with the nature and landscapes he saw as he travelled. At the time of…