Kim Taplin

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

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, and Tongues in Trees: Studies in Literature and Ecology was reviewed in Poetry Review in 1990. 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.

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)