The Dawn

I was trying to find the rest of this poem on various poetry searches.

It is the first lines of a poem called The Dawn by Walter de la Mare but I could not find it.

Eventually I found the book that I had remembered it from. Do you know of it?



“One after other break the birds

From motionless bush and tree

Into a strange and drowsy praise,

The flush of dawn to see.”



First of six verses.

Laurence Smith

"UNSUNG HEROES"

The Association of English Singers and Speakers
presents

"UNSUNG HEROES"

The Music of Armstrong Gibbs and the Poetry of Walter de la Mare

Sunday 7th February 2010 at 3.00 p.m.
Budworth Hall, Ongar, Essex

Following the success of the Betty Roe concert in September 2008,
the AESS has conceived the idea of a series of events celebrating
composers and poets who are unjustly neglected.

The first of these will take place at Budworth Hall, Ongar on the
afternoon of 7th February at 3.00 p.m. and will feature songs by
Armsrong Gibbs and the poetry of Walter de la Mare with whom he
had a close artistic relationship.

On this occasion we will be collaborating with the Armsrong Gibbs
Society and the Lee valley ISM Centre. Angela Aries of the Armstrong Gibbs Society and Michael Pilkington are guest speakers and the following AESS and ISM membes and their pupils will take part.

Margaret Cadney, Patricia Williams, Michael Hancock-Child, Rossemary
Hancock-Child, Karen Harries, Michael Pilkington, Georgia Kemp, Carolyn
Richards, Melanie Mehta, Stephen Miles, Graham Trew,Ione Chadwick,
Marion Lines, Betty Roe, David Kirby Ashmore, Oliver Ddavies,
and the Milton Keynes Youth Chorale.

Budworth Hall, High Street, Ongar, Essex, CM5 9JG
Located on the A218, east of the M11 and north of the M25

For further information please email williams.typnig.error@tiscali.co.uk

or visit: Http://www.aofess.org.uk

Some One (Came Knocking)

I am trying to gather a little information about the poem, 'Some One (Came Knocking)', and hope you can help. I'd like to know whether it appeared originally as part of a collection of poems for children, and if so which one.

Just to explain why ...! I am a Scottish-based musician and broadcaster and a native Gaelic speaker. My mother recently translated this poem into Gaelic, really just on a whim to amuse herself, but it was done so beautifully, I wondered whether it might be possible to do likewise with one or two others. She really managed to encapsulate the rhythms, rhymes - and suspense - in translation. She has a gift for it that stems from her being a singer and having an inate understanding of how the rhythms and sounds of words run naturally, whether English or Gaelic.

I'd be very grateful if you were able to point me in the right direction, as I have so far failed to find any indexed bibliography online.

Many thanks in advance - ceud taing airson ur cuideachaidh.


Mary Ann Kennedy

Walter de la Mare: illustrations by Bold‏

I'm hoping you can help me learn more about the designer "Bold," who illustrated Broomsticks & Other Stories, Stuff and Nonsense, and a Constable edition of The Listeners. Obviously, google doesn't help with this search, and the Library of Congress has him (her?) listed only as Bold.

I featured some of the illustrations from Broomsticks on my book blog:
http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/09/bold-settled-on-some-foreign-shore.html

I did not see any mention of Bold in Theresa Whistler's biography.

Thank you,
Will Schofield
(writing from Philadelphia)

Gerald Bullett & de la Mare

My great uncle was Gerald Bullett who was a rather more general wordsmith than W de la M, doing book reviews, short stories, novels, poems, plays and one film script of one of his books. He also wrote scripts for the BBC and read them on air. He also was a book publisher for a time and a magazine editor.

W de la M and he were frequent correspondents by letter and visited each other f5rom time to time. All this comes from letters that W de la M kept and are now in archives.

From my researches into Gerald I find I have one other review of W de la M work in Fortnightly Review in 1934 by Gerald but I have no more information than that.

I am afraid this is a bit thin but comes from a comment in correspondance.

Any thing you might have found incidentally about Gerald and are able to pass on will be gratefully received

Nicky Bullett

"Late last night while the whole world slept..."

I live in Australia and trying to find a poem believed to be by Walter de la Mare for a lady I just met today in a shop.
She has a brain tumor and cannot remember the full poem but loved it as a child and is keen to find the poem. I would like to be able to brighten her day by finding it for her and just searched on google with no success. I did find Walter de la Mare's website and your email address so here I am hoping you would be able to help me to help her find her childhood poem.

What she does remember goes something like this
"Late last night while the whole world slept, into the land of dreams I crept"

Thank you for any help you can give me

Facebook

Do check out the Facebook page of Walter de la Mare set up in June by Malcolm W.K - 171 friends and counting...