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Yelverton
Dartmoor author (1872-1909) of The Magic Mist, and other Dartmoor Legends, published at Christmas 1900, who also wrote children's books, magazine stories and verse from Plymouth, Horrabridge and Yelverton.
“Oh, Miss, how can I ever thank 'ee? I bathed my arms same as you told me at bedtime and got right in bed and slept till nine o'clock this morning without moving. Us haven't had such a night for months.”
Who wrote this?
Simon Dell's collection of the verses of Constable John L. Webber, the Victorian policeman-poet of Widecombe-in-the-Moor.
A 1917 collection of Chase's Dartmoor poetry, published between Through a Dartmoor Window and The Dartmoor Window Again.
Worth's 1875 anthology of West Country poetry, folk songs and traditional verses drawn from writers across five centuries.
A late sequence of poems drawn from the life of a single Dartmoor village, from one who had watched the moor for half a century.
I can provide individual poetry readings, headline performances or complete poetry shows.
Award winning poet and performance artist, producing poetry books and nature and myth-inspired spoken word shows.
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Dartmoor poetry and collaborative art celebrating the landscape through verse and photography.
View from Leeden Tor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The only signs of life are the furry inhabitants of the warren, and, perchance, a herd of Dartmoor ponies, wild as the country over which they roam, and a few sheep or cattle grazing on the slopes.”
Also on Our DartmoorLeigh Tor — A low tor south of Poundsgate beside the Newbridge road, formed of a schorl rock dyke, with a steep drop on its far side.
