SHIRLEY TOULSON ⭐️ ♥️
As a poet she was a member of The Group, an informal group of poets who met in London from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.Her work was included in the group's 1963 anthology A Group Anthology.
Her first Book:-"The Drovers "📑📒
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 8 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.
📍 Photograph Summary📍
The poem is a tribute to the poet’s mother. She is looking at an old photograph of her mother which has a frame of cardboard. The picture has three girls in which the middle one is the oldest and tallest.
It is her mother when she was twelve years old or so. Beside her, on both sides are her two cousins, Betty and Dolly, who are holding her hands and are younger than her. They went for paddling on a beach holiday. Her uncle took the photograph then. The poet could not help but notice her mother’s sweet face. The sea touched her terribly transient feet which depicted that she changed over the years and the sea remained the same.
After twenty-thirty years, her mother would laugh at the photograph. She would make the poet look at the photograph and tell her how their parents would dress them up for the beach holiday. The beach holiday was her mother’s favourite past memories while her laugh was the poet's favourite memory. Both of them lost something which they cherished a lot and yet cannot live that moment again.
Those sweet moments were memories now.
Now, the poet’s mother had been dead for the past twelve years, which is the same number as of her age when the photograph was taken back then. She cannot express the grief that she has from her mother’s absence.
🎀Her famous poems:-🎀
▶️Shadows in an Orchard(1960)
▶️Circumcision's is not a bad thing after all(1970)
🍁Her famous quotes🍁
Her books:-📚
◼️Her achievements:-◼️
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.
♦️Her awards:-♦️
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 reviews about her:-▶️
She was very kind hearted writer and she writes from heart .She was a poet,teacher,journalist, editor, and author of many books.
She writes in a very simple language so that people can relate. She loves poetry as a Occupation from tge childhood. She has written her first poetry at very young age of just being eight years old. At that time children just start speaking and learning new things and she has written a whole poetry. Which really very inspiring for me and after knowing about her i really get motivated to be more passionate about my carrior. She was polite and kindhearted this tought me to remain as polite and kindhearted after achecieving success. Their are many more poets like her who are totally unknown but by doing this i came to know about her .I will be happy to know about more poets in future. ♥️
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