Kim Taplin
Kim Taplin (1943–2024) was an English poet and non-fiction writer. She studied English at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Her death was announced on 10 April 2024.
Kim Taplin
- Born
- 1943
- Died
- 2024
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Education
- Somerville College
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Taplin published several collections of poetry, and non-fiction works. The English Path was noted in the British Council's "Best books" in 1984, and Tongues in Trees: Studies in Literature and Ecology was reviewed in Poetry Review in 1990. Her 1993 work Three Women in a Boat retraces the journey of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. She wrote several articles for Resurgence magazine. Her poem "Trying for truth" was included in a 1991 collection Elected friends: poems for and about Edward Thomas.
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• The English Path (1979, Boydell Press; 2nd ed 1999, Perry Green Press) • Muniments (1987, Jackson's Arm) • Tongues in Trees: Studies in literature and ecology (1989, Green Books) • By the Harbour Wall (1990, Enitharmon Press) • Three Women in a Boat (1993, Impact Books) • Journeywork: writing from the Whitehill workshops (editor; 1997) • For People with Bodies (1997, Flarestack) • From Parched Creek (2001, Redbeck) • Snow Buntings at Barton Point (2006, Sixties Press) • Walking aloud: rambles in the Cherwell Valley (2008, Wychwood Press) • Days off in Oxfordshire (2011, Wychwood Press)
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