Shirley toulson
🇬🇧Kathleen Shirley Toulson, was an English writer, poet, journalist and local politician.
♾️Starting in 1977 with her book The Drovers’ Roads of Wales....
her famous poem in hornbill book
♦️Her two famous poems around the world:
🔯you can buy her books on amazon.com
🌸Let's see what her daughter says about her:
✳️My review : it is a booklet rather than a book, about a random little corner of history. I do love random little corners. This in particular is about the drovers of the UK, specifically looking at the 1700s and 1800s, and the drovers of Scotland and Wales. I hadn't realised that they travelled so far, coming all the way from Scotland down to the south of England. These are the days before railways, so everything was by foot, horseback or carriage. So in the case of livestock, it had to be foot. The cattle got specially made ironshoes fitted in the way that horses do - and even pigs and geese could get "shoes" sometimes, pigs sometimes with little woolen boots, and geese being driven through tar and grit to give them some protection to their feet. Very different world to the one we live in now, with our prepacked containers of meat transported around in lorries. And the old drovers' roads have either just disappeared or are rambling trails today.
-🖼️A photograph📘
✳️In this poem, she recalls her mother and her memories while looking at a childhood photograph when her mother was twelve years old or so.
She has been deceased twelve years ago and she cannot explain her grief on her mother’s loss.
the poem, poetess describes a photograph of her mothers' childhood. ... Poetess how her mother laughs at the photograph and feel disappointed at the loss of her childhood joys.....
▪️#Shadows in an Orchard (1960)
▪️#Circumcision's Not Such a Bad Thing After All (1970)
⭐I am providing you the link ! Just click the link to purchase the book! With each link I am providing book name also so it would become easy for you!
🔅https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002PZ9S2Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_Y6NTM2EZY6CRCPKT3CPK( SHADOWS IN AN ORCHARD)
🔅https://www.amazon.com/dp/1843332787/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_7M9JYADS0P5DZXCDGXNV( THE CELTIC YEAR)
🔅https://www.amazon.in/dp/0852635052/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_Y5TRNHKC78BFZDGZNJ1Y(THE DROVERS)
🔅https://www.amazon.in/dp/0747806306/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_HKPX22RRW4WTPHJTNAN1(DROVERS ROADS OF WHEELS)
🔅https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1848366051/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_9F9GSH8P15Q3KJPNZF95(SOMERSET WITH BATH BRISTOL)
⭐These are some other books by Shirley!
🔷#some of her quotes#
🔹I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy hu to the brain, and I like that.
🔹At the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.
☘️THE CELTIC ALTERNATIVE-her famous book
⭐This book argues that the religion that flourished in the British Isles during the so-called Dark Ages had more in common with Eastern traditions such as Buddhism than with the later institutional Christianity of the West. This was the religion taught by the Celtic Church, which, over the early centuries of the Christian era gradually moved into confrontation with Rome - a confrontation that finally ended with Rome's victory at the Council of Whitby in 664 AD.
🌸About Shirley mam!
Her poetry was broadcast and published in journals (The Listener, Tribune, Ambit and Outposts), in a book, Shadows in an Orchard (1960), and in a poetry collection, A Group Anthology (1963), edited by Philip Hobsbaum and Edward Lucie-Smith. Further books included Circumcision’s Not Such a Bad Thing After All (1970) and The Fault, Dear Brutus: A Zodiac of Sonnets (1972), both published by Roy Lewis, the commonwealth correspondent of the Times, on his Keepsake Press for which she became adviser and commissioning editor following his death in 1996.✨
✳️ Achievements by Toulson:
Celtic Christianity influenced her greatly that most of her major works like "Celtic Alternative" in 1987 and "Celtic Year" in 1993 were on that topic. But these works indeed made her more famous. HER WORKS: Shadows in an Orchard (poems), Scorpion Press, 1960.
✳️ Awards by Shirley T:
Circumcision's Not Such a Bad Thingafter All and Other Poems, Keepsake Press, 1970. All Right, Auden, I Know You're There: A Quick Thought (poems), Offcut Press, 1970. For a Double Time (poems), Sceptre Press, 1970. The Fault, Dear Brutus: A Zodiac of Sonnets, Keepsake Press, 1972.
My mother, Shirley Toulson, who has died aged 94, was a highly regarded poet and an innovative writer about Britain’s walks, ancient tracks and traditions.
Her poetry was broadcast and published in journals (The Listener, Tribune, Ambit and Outposts), in a book, Shadows in an Orchard (1960), and in a poetry collection, A Group Anthology (1963), edited by Philip Hobsbaum and Edward Lucie-Smith. Further books included Circumcision’s Not Such a Bad Thing After All (1970) and The Fault, Dear Brutus: A Zodiac of Sonnets (1972), both published by Roy Lewis, the commonwealth correspondent of the Times, on his Keepsake Press for which she became adviser and commissioning editor following his death in 1996.After they divorced in 1951 Shirley studied English at Birkbeck College, London University, and became a teacher. Then, wanting to get involved in publishing, she worked at the London bookshop Foyles, before becoming a freelance journalist, contributing mainly to the Times Educational Supplement, after which she became a features editor on the Teacher and editor of Child Education.
⭐My reviews About her:
She is a very famous poet with such a motivating books .Her style and era of writing impressed me . You can purchase her books on Amazon and flipkart! They are available out there,you can either mail me to purchase her books if you want!
Except this all I also wanna express that the poet in the poem "A photograph" tells the true story of her life I recommend you to read that story once ....it is available on internet and you can also purchase the books !
Adding to this she was a very polite and a kind writer who writes by her heart ♥️!!!
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✴️KIRTI S CHOUHAN