Kim Taplin
{{Short description|English poet and writer (1943–2024)}}
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Kim Taplin (1943–2024) was an English poet and non-fiction writer. She studied English at Somerville College, University of Oxford.{{cite book|last1=Harvey|first1=Anne|title=Elected friends: poems for and about Edward Thomas|date=1991|publisher=Enitharmon Press|isbn=9781870612722|page=133|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kh2oAAAAIAAJ&q=%22kim+taplin%22|accessdate=26 January 2016}} Her death was announced on 10 April 2024. She was 80.{{cite news |last1=Taplin |first1=Phoebe |title=Kim Taplin obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/10/kim-taplin-obituary |access-date=11 April 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=10 April 2024}}
Work
Taplin published several collections of poetry, and non-fiction works. The English Path was noted in the British Council's "Best books" in 1984,{{cite journal|title=Best books|journal=British Book News|date=1984|page=389|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UijpAAAAMAAJ&q=%22kim+taplin%22|accessdate=26 January 2016}} and Tongues in Trees: Studies in Literature and Ecology was reviewed in Poetry Review in 1990.{{cite journal|last1=Gascoyne|first1=David|title=review|journal=The Poetry Review|date=1990|volume=80|pages=12–13|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=52UEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22kim+taplin%22|accessdate=26 January 2016}} 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.{{cite web|title=Author profile: Kim Taplin|url=http://www.resurgence.org/magazine/author322-kim-taplin.html|website=Resurgence and Ecologist|accessdate=26 January 2016}}
Her poem "Trying for truth" was included in a 1991 collection Elected friends: poems for and about Edward Thomas.
Publications
- 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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Category:Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford
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