In honour of Library Day in the Life, which has been running all this week, I thought I’d post a prompt based on one of my major preoccupations this week - locating, reading and writing about Georgian Poetry, the series of anthologies published between 1912 and 1922 which defined an era we now tend to forget.

This week’s prompt is “stolen titles” - grab one of the following suggestions and write from it. Don’t look up the original poem; just go wherever it takes you. Afterwards, you may wish to change the title of your piece, or keep it - this is just a way to get started:

From Georgian Poetry 1911-1912

Days Too Short / William H. Davies
The Hare / Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Devil’s Edge / Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Child of Dawn / Harold Monro
In the Poppy Field / James Stephens

From Georgian Poetry 1913-1915

A Town Window / John Drinkwater
The Old Ships / James Elroy Flecker
The Gorse / Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
The Wife of Llew / Francis Ledwidge
Overheard on a Saltmarsh / Harold Monro

From Georgian Poetry 1916-1917

The Fifteen Acres / James Stephens
Music Comes / John Freeman
Stone Trees / John Freeman

From Georgian Poetry 1918-1919

Witchcraft : New Style / Lascelles Abercrombie
The Nightingale Near the House / Harold Monro
A Hollow Elm / Edward Shanks
A Man Dreams that he is the Creator / Fredegond Shove

From Georgian Poetry 1920-1922

Miss Thompson Goes Shopping / Martin Armstrong
Unknown Country / Harold Monro
On a Friend who died suddenly upon the Seashore / J.D.C. Pellow
To my Mother in Canada / Frank Prewett
The Quails / Francis Brett Young