Robin Hood - In Poetry and Verse

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World Wide Robin Hood Society Celebrates 20 Years

(Mar 07, 2018)

WORLD WIDE ROBIN HOOD SOCIETY CELEBRATES 20 YEARS AS ONE OF THE LEADING INFORMATION SOURCES ON ALL ASPECTS OF THE LEGENDARY SHERWOOD OUTLAW. On March 17th 2018, the Nottingham-based World Wide Robin Hood Society will mark its 20th Anniversary Year with a programme of varied initiatives including: *The publication of a new book about Robin Hood and the legend’s global impact. *A local cookery contest to find the best recipe for a Robin Hood Pie. *Anniversary theme to the Society’s annual “Feather in Your Cap” business awards. *A children’s story writing competition. *Developing an illustrated Robin Hood talk available to groups and societies. Although the Society was originally a membership-based organisation, over the last 2 decades it has evolved into one of the leading internet-based information resources on all things associated with Robin Hood. It is used extensively by the media and the tourism industry and the Society has contributed to numerous global television documentaries and historical features including BBC’s The One Show; Sky Travel Channel’s “Expedition Unknown” series and French TV’s “Secrets Histoire” series. The Society has also participated in hundreds of radio programmes around the globe, including South America, the USA, Europe, Korea and Australia. Society Chairman, Bob White, said “The very first Robin Hood Society was established in London in the 1700’S and was a club or assembly for public debate. It held its popular, regular meetings in the Robin Hood public house in Butcher Row, near Temple Bar, which is how the Society acquired its name. In the 1970’s, a Nottingham-based Robin Hood Society was created by the local historian and Robin Hood expert, Jim Lees, and its members often dressed up in costume as various characters from the Sherwood tales and helped raise funds for local charities. In the Nineties, Nottingham City Council joined forces with the Nottingham Evening Post and set up a Robin Hood Club especially aimed at youngsters, which featured a series of cartoon woodland animals known as “The Tails of Sherwood”. The present day, internet-based World Wide Robin Hood Society was originally the inspiration of co-founder and sponsor, Mike Douglas from Hull, who established a successful communications business in Nottingham in the late 1990’s. He said “Over the past twenty years the Society has seen many changes but the phenomenal global interest in Robin Hood has never faltered and the legendary outlaw continues to be an iconic figure with a massive international fan base, and he regularly features in new films, books and the global media.” For further information contact Bob White on e-mail at bob@robinhood.info or by phone on (0115) 9523183 or mobile 07504 852731 or visit the Society website at www.robinhood.info Read more...

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FIND ROBIN HOOD! – New initiative launched to trace the impact of the legend

(Feb 06, 2017)

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NEW ROBIN HOOD BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE SET TO START FILMING IN EARLY 2017

(Jan 03, 2017)

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ROBIN HOOD FEATURES IN THE ISLE OF MAN’S 2016 CHRISTMAS STAMP COLLECTION

(Dec 15, 2016)

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SOCIETY HONOURS COMPOSER NEIL BRAND FOR HIS NEW ROBIN HOOD FILM SCORE

(Dec 15, 2016)

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In Poetry and Verse

Over hundreds of years, the traditional Robin Hood story and its Sherwood Forest locations have fired the imagination of poets of all styles and interpretations and the legend and its popular characters have been frequently featured in a variety of works ranging from the early Medieval ballads to classic narrative poems and bizarre rhymes.

Do let us know if you find any new and imaginative work – or maybe try writing one yourself?

Here are a selection of poems that have recently come to our attention.

THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND Vol 2

Debra Wetherbee in Afghanistan brought the following Robin Hood poem to our attention, which she found when she was researching her family ancestry. The poem appeared in "THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND" Vol.2" by Thomas Fuller, which was published in 1811.

Forest of Moonlight

Peom by Mary Shepard

Nottingham's Heroes

Poem by Pippa Hennessy, Nottingham Writers’ Studio

A Geste of Robyn Hode

"Lythe and listen gentilmen, that be of frebore blode,
I shal you tel of a gode yeman, his name was Robyn Hode".