This Night the Stars
Channel: readingtheforest
Date: 2020-08-20

This poem was written by Leonard Clark in 1927, when he was only 22 years old, very early in his career. He regularly walked down to Littledean from his home in Cinderford, over the brow of the hill and down the ‘Ruffitt’ as the local track was known. The view from here is magnificent, with the Severn plain and winding river below and the Cotswold plain in the distance. If you visit this place on a clear night, and look westward over the City of Gloucester, the Cotswold hills and the River Severn, this poem will come to life.The poem appeared in "The County Series of Contemporary Poetry: Gloucester, edited by S. Fowler Wright in 1927.