Kim Taplin

Kim Taplin (1943–2024) was an English poet and non-fiction writer. She studied English at Somerville College, University of Oxford.^[1] Her death was announced on 10 April 2024. She was 80.^[2]

Taplin published several collections of poetry, and non-fiction works. The English Path was noted in the British Council's "Best books" in 1984,^[3] and Tongues in Trees: Studies in Literature and Ecology was reviewed in Poetry Review in 1990.^[4] Her 1993 work Three Women in a Boat retraces the journey of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. She wrote several articles for Resurgence magazine.^[5]

Her poem "Trying for truth" was included in a 1991 collection Elected friends: poems for and about Edward Thomas.^[1]

• The English Path (1979, Boydell Press ISBN 0851151175; 2nd ed 1999,Perry Green Press, ISBN 978-1902481098)
• Muniments (1987, Jackson's Arm, ISBN 094828207X )
• Tongues in Trees: Studies in literature and ecology (1989, Green Books, ISBN 978-1870098229)
• By the Harbour Wall (1990, Enitharmon Press, ISBN 1870612752)
• Three Women in a Boat (1993, Impact Books, ISBN 1874687137)
• Journeywork : writing from the Whitehill workshops (editor; 1997, ISBN 0953206203)
• For People with Bodies (1997, Flarestack, ISBN 1900397064)
• From Parched Creek (2001, Redbeck, ISBN 0946980837)
• Snow Buntings at Barton Point (2006, Sixties Press, ISBN 0952999471)
• Walking aloud : rambles in the Cherwell Valley (2008, Wychwood Press, ISBN 1902279336)
• Days off in Oxfordshire (2011, Wychwood Press, ISBN 9781902279435)

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