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 ; 2nd ed 1999, Perry Green Press, ) Muniments (1987, Jackson's Arm, ) Tongues in Trees: Studies in literature and ecology (1989, Green Books, ) By the Harbour Wall (1990, Enitharmon Press, ) Three Women in a Boat (1993, Impact Books, ) Journeywork : writing from the Whitehill workshops (editor; 1997, ) For People with Bodies (1997, Flarestack, ) From Parched Creek (2001, Redbeck, ) Snow Buntings at Barton Point (2006, Sixties Press, ) Walking aloud : rambles in the Cherwell Valley (2008, Wychwood Press, ) Days off in Oxfordshire (2011, Wychwood Press, )