Edward Thomas is a paradox. One of our most highly-regarded poets, and author of one of the nation's favourite poems, "Adlestrop", Thomas is also one of the lea

Winner of the Costa Biography Award, a fascinating exploration of one of the 20th century's most influential poets.

This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war po

Spring was late in 1913 and Edward Thomas decided to go and search for winter's grave and the tell-tale signs of season's turn - he set out to cycle westwards f

Edward Thomas wrote a lifetime's poetry in two years. Already a dedicated prose writer and influential critic, he became a poet only in December 1914. In April