Friends of the Dymock Poets Spring Day

The Friends of the Dymock Poets will be welcoming visitors from far and wide to what promises to be an insightful and entertaining day of literary celebration, this spring.

Local culture-vultures will be given the rare chance to follow in the footsteps of the Dymock Poets this spring, during a special event being held on Saturday 9 April 2011 in the Forest of Dean.

In the years leading up to World War I, literary history was being made around the village of Dymock in the valley of the River Leadon, when six poets were walking and talking, reading and writing between May Hill in Gloucestershire and the Malvern Hills in Herefordshire.

These poets were Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Robert Frost, Wilfrid Gibson and Edward Thomas – whose lives and work is set to be celebrated by the Friends of the Dymock Poets during the annual Spring Day event.

The day will start from Brooms Green Village Hall at 10am with a walk to key locations led by Simon Payton, talking about the fauna and flora as the poets used to do. The cost is £5 for non-members.

There’s lunch at the village hall from 12.30pm to 2pm, followed by a talk on Wilfrid Gibson by Judy Greenway, which costs £8 for non-members.

While at 3.15pm Wyn Hobson will be giving a further talk about ‘Wilfrid Gibson after Dymock’ to finish the day, which costs £8 for non-members.