Friends of the Dymock Poets – Friends of the Dymock Poets

In the years leading up to the First World War, literary history was being made around the village of Dymock in the valley of the River Leadon.

Six poets were walking and talking, reading and writing here between May Hill in Gloucestershire and the Malvern Hills in Herefordshire.

The Friends of the Dymock Poets celebrates the lives and work of these six poets and their relationship with the Dymock area.

They were:

This website provides information on the poets, their poetry, the history and activities of the Friends of the Dymock Poets, and the Dymock area.

November 2024 Newsletter

The Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter for November 2024 is now available. Please click here or on the image to view it. The Newsletter’s contents are: Subscription renewals Spring Meeting in Much Marcle on 8th March 2025 Once they lived in Gloucestershire –…

October 2024 Newsletter

The Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter for October 2024 is now available. Please click here or on the image to view it. The Newsletter also includes a list of the books and other publications generously donated to the FDP by bookseller Keith Smith,…

Bibliographic Checklists

Over the past decade, Jeff Cooper, former chair of the FDP, has developed checklists of the writings of four of the Dymock Poets: Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, and Edward Thomas. The aim of these is to provide a definitive bibliography for each…