{"id":1197,"date":"2021-10-06T19:49:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/?page_id=1197"},"modified":"2024-01-11T23:15:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T23:15:19","slug":"branch-lines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/index.php\/branch-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Branch-Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Branch-Lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enitharmon.co.uk\/product\/branch-lines-edward-thomas\/\">published by Enitharmon<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Branch-Lines<\/em> captures the range of Thomas\u2019s achievement, not least by combining poetry with prose. In this unique collection, fifty-five contemporary poets reflect on Thomas\u2019s craftsmanship and enduring power. Some have chosen poems of their own in which they detect his influence, others have written new poems in his honour. Each poet has also contributed a piece of prose, and the volume contains an introduction, four critical essays, illustrations, a Foreword by Andrew Motion and an Afterword by Michael Longley.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1215 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0021-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0021-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0021-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0021-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0021-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0021-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0021-1-360x270.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This collection of essays, poems and critical reflections has grown out of a conference on &#8220;Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry&#8221;, which took place on 12 March 2005.\u00a0 The conference was held at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, sponsored by Tower Poetry and supported by Oxford University\u2019s English Faculty.\u00a0 The speakers included sixteen poets, most of whom had connections with Oxford; and some poets who were unable to attend contributed <em>in absentia<\/em>.\u00a0 Seamus Heaney, who wrote a poem specially for the occasion, observed that the conference seemed likely to feature &#8220;all the bards, nearly, of Oxfordshire and where else [?]&#8221;.\u00a0 Genially remembering &#8220;Adlestrop&#8221;, he caught the spirit of the conference.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1217 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0012-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0012-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0012-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0012-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0012-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0012-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_0012-360x270.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Second edition:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1205\" src=\"http:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Branch_Lines-cover-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"632\" 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