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I've just been contacted by Dr A J Risdon, reminding me about the poet John Heath-Stubbs. He grew up in New Milton, Hampshire, and was blind. Even though he settled in London John never forgot Hampshire. He was partially sighted as a boy and into early adulthood, and his poems often recall the flora and fauna of the county. They also remember its heroes and heritage, right through to his final poem 'The Garpike'.
John Heath-Stubbs was awarded the OBE. His long poem 'Artorius' earned him the Queen's Gold Medal.
Dr A J Risdon, a friend of the poet over a 30 year period, will be giving a talk at:
St Barbe Museum, Lymington at 6pm on Tuesday 24th November
entitled 'Uther's Son: Hampshire in the verse of John Heath-Stubbs'.
30 October 2009 from Angela Hicken
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Very grateful for this entry by Angela Hicken. The talk went well - "fit audience though few." I am apparently welcome to return to the museum in 2013 to give a third lecture on Artorius - John Heath-Stubbs' Arthurian masterpiece (first published 1973, so it will be the 40th anniversary year).
But it is clearly not quite enough to give the occasional academic lecture, and I am exploring other ways of making John's poetry known in the region he grew up in. His own hero was Charles Williams and I'm considering attempting the (rather ambitious, this!) sort of spiritual thriller that C.W. wrote, with John fairly recognizably the detective.
If anyone has any other ideas about how John's verse may be more effectively recommended in Hampshire (and Dorset, part of which was still Hants. when John lived there) please email me.
Adrian Risdon adrian.risdon@yahoo.co.uk