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Edward Thomas: Words into Wood
The Edward Thomas Fellowship has published a fine-art limited-edition book featuring eighteen poems by Edward Thomas, illustrated by specially commissioned wood engravings by contemporary artists. Find out more.

Collected Poems
Faber. Paperback, £12.99: ISBN 0-571-22260-9.
Edited by R. George Thomas. Generally regarded as the definitive edition of Edward Thomas's poetry.

The Annotated Collected Poems
Bloodaxe Books. Paperback, £12.00: ISBN 978-1-85224-746-1.
Edited by Edna Longley. Includes extensive Notes offering substantial quotations from Thomas's prose, letters and notebooks, as well as a new commentary on the poems.

Poems
Everyman. Paperback, £2.00: ISBN 0-460-87877-8.

Poems and Last Poems edited by Edna Longley
Plymbridge Distribution. Paperback £4.95: ISBN 0-7121-0146.

The Works of Edward Thomas [poems]
Wordsworth. Paperback, £2.50: ISBN 1-85326-409-1.

Poems [by "Edward Eastaway"]
Imperial War Museum. Hardback, £14.00 (limited edition of 300 copies): ISBN 1-901623-11-4.

Six Poems by Edward Eastaway
Cyder Press. Hardback, £10.00: ISBN unavailable.

Oxford
Signal Books. Hardback, £20.00: ISBN 1-902669-84-3. Paperback, £
10.99: 1-902669-85-1.
Edited and introduced by Lucy Newlyn.

The Heart of England
Faber. Paperback, £
11.70: ISBN 9780571242962.

The South Country
Little Toller Books. Paperback, £10.00: ISBN 978-0-9562545-1-1.
A special centenary edition (published in 2009), including a preface by Helen Thomas, engravings by Eric Fitch Daglish, and a new introduction by Robert Macfarlane.

Richard Jefferies
Faber. Paperback, £12.60: ISBN 9780571247707.

The Childhood of Edward Thomas
Faber. Paperback, £10.80: ISBN 9780571243440.

Edward Thomas on the Countryside
Faber. Paperback, £14.40: ISBN 9780571249053.

Prose and verse selected and edited by Roland Gant.

One Green Field
Penguin. Paperback, £4.99: ISBN 978-0-1411909-1-4.
Published in 2009 as part of the English Journeys series.

The Ship of Swallows: A Selection of Short Stories
Enitharmon Press. Hardback, £15.00: 1-904634-16-8.
Edited by Jeremy Hooker. Preface by Myfanwy Thomas.
An extensive selection from Edward Thomas's fiction.

A Pilgrim and Other Tales
Everyman Classics. Paperback, £1.99: 0-460-87083-1.
Selected and introduced by R. George Thomas.

Light and Twilight
Laurel Books. Paperback, £6.99: ISBN 1-873390-03-3.

The Country
The Cyder Press. Paperback, £5.00: ISBN 1-86174-070-0.
Facsimile reprint with a new introduction by Stan Smith.

Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
The Cyder Press. Paperback, £5.00: ISBN 1-86174-111-1.
Facsimile reprint with a new introduction by Richard Emeny.

Keats
The Cyder Press. Paperback, £5.00: ISBN 1-86174-071-9.
Facsmile reprint with a new introduction by Richard Emeny.

Edward Thomas on Thomas Hardy
The Cyder Press. Paperback, £5.00: ISBN 1-86174-112-X.
Collected, edited and introduced by Trevor Johnson.

Edward Thomas on the Georgians
The Cyder Press. Paperback, £7.50: ISBN 1-86174-150 2.
Collected, edited and introduced by Richard Emeny.

In Pursuit of Spring
Laurel Books. Paperback, £9.99: ISBN 1-873390-04-1.

Old Man
Gruffyground. Paperback, £12.00: ISBN 0-905572-14-9.

Edward Thomas's Poets edited by Judy Kendall, Carcanet. Paperback, £14.95: ISBN 978-1-85754-908-9.

For the first time, letters by Edward Thomas about writing and publishing are set alongside his poems, revealing the occasions of their composition and illuminating the processes of recollection, revision and development that transformed him into a poet. Interleaved with Thomas's own poems and letters are works by the literary friends whom he criticised and admired, and whose influence he absorbed: Walter de la Mare, W.H. Hudson, Robert Frost, Eleanor Farjeon and others.

Letters to Helen edited by R George Thomas, with a foreword by Myfanwy Thomas. Carcanet. Paperback, £12.95: no ISBN provided.
Edited from the original manuscripts held in libraries in Aberystwyth and Cardiff, this volume presents 20 of the letters which Edward Thomas sent to his wife Helen, along with 18 of her replies. It also includes seven of Edward Thomas's early letters to Harry and Jane Hooton.

Elected Friends: Robert Frost and Edward Thomas to One Another edited by Matthew Spencer. The Other Press (UK) and Handsel Books (USA). Hardback, £17.95 or $24.00: ISBN 1590510836.
All the known surviving correspondence between Thomas and Frost, the poems they wrote to or for each other, and Thomas's reviews of North of Boston. With a foreword by Michael Hoffman and an afterword by Christopher Ricks.

Letters to Jesse Berridge edited by Anthony Berridge
Enitharmon. Hardback, £8.50: ISBN 0-905289-38-2.

Richard Jefferies by Edward Thomas, 2nd edition  
The Country by Edward Thomas
Richard Jefferies: His Life and Work by Edward Thomas. Currently out of print.   The Country by Edward Thomas. Recently reprinted by the Cyder Press.
Works about
Edward Thomas


Edward Thomas: An Introduction by Richard Emeny
Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education. Paperback booklet, £1.00: ISBN 1-86174-021-2.
A useful 8-page pamphlet describing the main characteristics of Edward Thomas's writings. The author was until recently Honorary Secretary of the Edward Thomas Fellowship. Available postage-free from Steve Bailey Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre Cheltenham & Gloucester College, Francis Close Hall, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 2DF. Telephone: 01242 543496. Email: sbailey@chelt.ac.uk


A Bibliographical Checklist of the Works of Edward Thomas by Jeff Cooper and Richard Emeny
£5.00. Available from the White Sheep Press, 122 Preston New Road, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB2 6BU.

Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years by Eleanor Farjeon
Sutton. Paperback, £12.99: ISBN 0-7509-1337-1.

Edward Thomas by Stan Smith
Faber. Paperback, £3.95: ISBN 0-571-13942-6.

Under Storm's Wing by Helen Thomas
Carcanet. Paperback, £9.95: ISBN 1-85754-361-0.

Edward Thomas's Poets edited by Judy Kendall
Carcanet. Paperback, £14.95: ISBN 978-1-904634-35-5.

For the first time, letters by Edward Thomas about writing and publishing are set alongside his poems, revealing the occasions of their composition and illuminating the processes of recollection, revision and development that transformed him into a poet. Interleaved with Thomas's own poems and letters are works by the literary friends whom he criticised and admired, and whose influence he absorbed: Walter de la Mare, W.H. Hudson, Robert Frost, Eleanor Farjeon and others.

Branch-Lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry edited by Guy Cuthbertson & Lucy Newlyn
Enitharmon. Hardback, £15.00: ISBN 978-1-85754-908-9.

On Edward Thomas by Norman G. Brett James, Duncan Williams, E S P Haynes, Norman Douglas, Edward Garnett and Clifford Bax.
Tributes to Edward Thomas. Edition limited to 110 copies (100 for sale), hand-set at the Tragara Press. Bound in Cockerell paper boards with a linen spine. £30. Published by Demeter Press, Joan Stevens, 3 High Street, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, PE16 6BE. Email: joan@robhar.freeserve.co.uk

Edward Thomas: A Mirror of England by Elaine Wilson (calligraphy and illustrations by Frederick Marns), Shepheard-Walwyn Limited. £12.95: ISBN 0 85683 082 8.

Elected Friends: Poems for and about Edward Thomas compiled by Anne Harvey
Enitharmon. Paperback, £9.95: ISBN 1-870612-72-8.

Other Related Works



Writers in a Landscape by Jeremy Hooker
University of Wales Press. Paperback £12.95. ISBN 0-7083-1391-4.
Hardback £30.00: ISBN 0-7083-1362-0.
Includes two chapters on Edward Thomas as a writer in prose.

The Radical Twenties: Aspects of Writing, Politics and Culture by John Lucas
Five Leaves Publications. Paperback, £10.99: ISBN 0-907123.
Hardback, £35.00: ISBN 0-907123-22-8.

The Georgian Poets: Abercrombie, Brooke, Drinkwater, Gibson and Thomas by Rennie Parker
Northcote House. Paperback, £8.99: ISBN 07463-0899-X.

The Dymock Poets by Sean Street
Seren. Paperback, £6.95: ISBN 1-85411-121-3.

Adlestrop Revisited: An Anthology inspired by Edward Thomas's Poem compiled and edited by Anne Harvey
Sutton Publishing Ltd. Paperback, £12.99: ISBN 0-7509-2289-3.
Edward Thomas never left the train that stopped briefly at a Cotswold station, Adlestrop, just before the First World War, but what he saw resulted in one of the best known and loved of English poems, 'Adlestrop'. Generations of literary pilgrims have visited the village which inspired the poem, while many of today's writers have composed their own tributes to the poet and the place where, after the closure of the station, the nameboard was lovingly retained.

This anthology explores Adlestrop's literary, topographical and railway associations. Anne Harvey investigates the origins of the poem: did the train really stop "unwontedly"? Was it an express? Was Thomas travelling alone?

The book also examines the connection with Jane Austen, who visited her Leigh relatives at Adlestrop Park and Rectory, and there are poems from Peter Porter, Alan Brownjohn, P J Kavanagh, Dannie Abse and Brian Patten. A wide selection of illustrations includes facsimiles of Edward Thomas's original manuscript and notebook entry, photographs and fine wood engravings by well-known artists. This engaging anthology will appeal to all who have read and loved this classic poem.

A Life Kept Always Young: An Introduction to Eleanor Farjeon by Anne Harvey
Cheltenham & Gloucester College Higher of Higher Education. Paperback booklet, £1.00: ISBN 1-86174-069-7.
Eleanor Farjeon is well known as a children's author, whose books include Martin Pippin in the Apple-Orchard (1921) and The Little Bookroom (1955), and as a close friend of Edward Thomas during his last four years. Anne Harvey, a committee member of the Edward Thomas Fellowship, provides a lively, perceptive and informative account of Eleanor Farjeon's writings and personality in this 11-page pamphlet. Available postage-free from Steve Bailey Dymock Poets Archive & Study Centre Cheltenham & Gloucester College, Francis Close Hall, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 2DF. Telephone: 01242 543496. Email: sbailey@chelt.ac.uk

Fisherman's Friend: A Life of Stephen Reynolds by Christopher Scoble
Halsgrove. Hardback, £25.00: ISBN 1-84114-092-9.
This is the first ever biography of Stephen Reynolds (1881-1919) who, as a struggling young writer, was "adopted" by a fishing family at Sidmouth in Devon and remained with them for the rest of his life. He achieved fame in 1908 with A Poor Man's House, a book describing his new companions and way of life, and he was befriended by other writers including Edward Thomas, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, John Buchan and Ford Madox Ford. After several more books, Reynolds abandoned literature to devote himself to the welfare of fishermen and their familes, at which he was a remarkably successful reprsentative and campaigner. This is a thoroughly researched biography which, in nearly 800 pages, also contains a wealth of fascinating detail about the lives of fishermen and the town of Sidmouth in the early years of the twentieth century.

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