And did those feet: 10 walks inspired by famous poets
Matching rich verse with great scenery, these strolls follow in the footsteps of some of our greatest wordsmiths, from William Blake to Carol Ann Duffy
June 2021
Roads taken: the Gloucestershire footpaths that were the making of Robert Frost
We follow the trails trodden a century ago by a band of revolutionary poets who fell for this corner of rural England
February 2021
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: The Owl by Edward Thomas
The melancholy cry sounds an uneasy reminder of all those excluded from material comfort
December 2019
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: The Thrush by Edward Thomas
A mellifluous lyric meditates carefully on what the songbird might be thinking
August 2017
Why I love …
‘Herefordshire is just as lovely as the Dordogne’
Wainwright prize for nature writing won by 'extraordinary book' on first world war
March 2017
Nash Ensemble/Brabbins review – Davies, Matthews and Holt take the modern temperature
Two new works and a London premiere, alongside revisits to three other pieces, rode the spectrum from elegant and concise to dark and ruminative
June 2015
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: All Day It Has Rained by Alun Lewis
The relaxed details of a slow Sunday at a military training camp in ‘Edward Thomas country’ mix with foreboding about what will follow
May 2015
Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras review – the man behind the poet
Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s biography of the first world war poet claims to uncover the trials and torments that made him ‘the father’ of modern British poetry
April 2015
Poster poems
Poster poems: Pathways
As the spring begins to beckon us outside, this month we’re on the trail of your metrical feet
March 2015
Notebook
A landscape saved by poets
Catherine Shoard
Fields have been preserved from polytunnels not because of wildlife or the view, but because Robert Frost and Edward Thomas once tramped over them
September 2013
Robert Frost's snowy walk tops Radio 4 count of nation's favourite poems
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening displaces verse by Kipling and Eliot as most-requested on BBC's Poetry Please programme
July 2013
Summer voyages
Summer voyages: In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas
Flora MacQueen: A vivid and poignant portrait of a vanished age
March 2013
Spring: where has it gone?
Environment blog
Our pursuit of spring continues, 100 years after Edward Thomas's
February 2013
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas
This loose-limbed lyric on the elemental power of language seems rooted in a distinctly Welsh landscape
November 2012
The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review
Nick Dear's odd play about the final years of the poet really shouldn't work, says Susannah Clapp, but it's 'utterly absorbing'.
The Dark Earth and the Light Sky – review
A probing, intelligent exploration of the mysterious poet Edward Thomas that makes you want to reread the poetry itself, writes Michael Billington
Observer New Review Q&A
Richard Eyre: 'I don't feel directing has to be a young man's game'
The director tells Kate Kellaway about his nightmares, a new play about the poet Edward Thomas and the joy of having grandchildren
October 2012
Country diary
An ancient wandering way through Wales
Country diary: Cambrian Mountains: Edward Thomas loved Sarn Helen, brought it into his poems and prose time and again. I love it too. Some stretches are bronze age or earlier in origin
