#adlestrop

[rherlotshadow]

It's Adlestrop Day. June 24 is the date in 1914 when Edward Thomas was on a train that made the unexpected stop, that led to him writing the poem.

[septembersung]

Adlestrop Edward Thomas

Yes. I remember Adlestrop— The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was Adlestrop—only the name

And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

[burlveneer-music]

A couple tracks from Adlestrop, Gilroy Mere’s new LP for Clay Pipe Music, out July 24

Trading as Gilroy Mere, Dollboy, Rhododendron, and Australian Testing Labs as well as his own name, Oliver Cherer has meandered his way through the backwaters of left of centre English folk, ambient and electronic music, issuing numerous albums of original music to much critical acclaim via highly regarded boutique labels such as Static Caravan, Wayside and Woodland, Polytechnic Youth, Second Language, Deep Distance, and Awkward Formats.

[organicgardendreams]

We visited this farmhouse and its gardens at the Adlestrop Village Open Gardens Day last summer. Isn't it beautiful? I love the design of the gardens surrounding the terrace at the back of the house. It is just the right mix of formality and abundant cottage style. #farmhouse #cottagegarden #formalgardens #cottagegardenstyle #olsfarmhouse #abundant #garden #gardens #gardendesign #organicgardendreams #Adlestrop #england #opengardens #adlestropopengardens (at Adlestrop, Gloucestershire)

[outsiderlookinginward]

Remembering Adlestrop and the poet Edward Thomas

Remembering Adlestrop and the poet Edward Thomas

The English poet Edward Thomas immortalised the now vanished railway station at Adlestrop, where his train halted on 24 June 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War. The themes of intransience and nostalgia are present in many of his other poems, which deserve to be better known. (more…)

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[geofflewriter]

Influencing #poetry #poem

It’s been a while since I did one of these. Edward Thomas wrote Adlestrop which was voted the twentieth most popular poem in English by the BBC’s audience. This is the link to the original. This is my rewritten version, using the first line and the same meter and format.

Yes. I remember Adlestrop.

A knowall influencer whose

perfect abs and chiselled jaw

couldn’t hide his obnoxious…

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[martyncrucefix]

Everything Moving: Tamar Yoseloff's 'The Black Place'

Everything Moving: Tamar Yoseloff's 'The Black Place' published by Seren Books;

Last week I attended the launch of Tamar Yoseloff’s new collection, published by Seren Books. Tammy and I have known each other for a long while, are both published by Seren and, in her role at Hercules Editions, she has just published my own recent chapbook, Cargo of Limbs. So – in the small world of British poetry – I’m hardly an unconnected critic, but I have the benefit of having followed her…

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[4chanmusic]

https://soundcloud.com/adlestrop/the-way-you-sway