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Tavistock
Vicar of Tavistock and curate of Brent Tor from 1812 to 1857, husband of Anna Eliza Bray. His Dartmoor journals appear in her 1836 Tamar and Tavy book.
Plymouth
Plymouth schoolmaster and poet (1777-1830), author of Dartmoor: A Descriptive Poem (1826). The Dewerstone was a favourite spot of his, and his name is cut into the rock there.
Storyteller, poet and photographic artist based on Dartmoor, telling traditional tales of the land in the oral storytelling tradition; author of Pixie Folk Tales.
Ashburton
Paloma Suarez is a textile artist working with stitching, felting and mending - stories told with colour.
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.
Tavistock
Tavistock poet and domestic servant (1804-1853) whose verse was discovered and published with the help of her employer, the author Anna Eliza Bray.
Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 283, 1900“Two ranges of jagged tors swept across the skyline and rose, grey and shadowy, against the purple of the air.”
Also on Our DartmoorDisused Farmhouse at Flood — A Grade II* listed farmhouse, long abandoned, standing on the open moor near Flood with roots in medieval or early modern settlement.
