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Kevin John William Crossley-holland

Male : Poet, writer, Translator, Broadcaster & Children's Writer (esp retelling of Anglo-Saxon legends)
Nationality : English Date of Birth : 1941
1961-1970
On Approval
(1961 Outpost, Dulwich)
Havelok the Dane
(1965)
King Horn
(1965 Macmillan)
(Trans) The Battle of Maldon and Other Old English Poems (1965)
The Green Children
(1966 Macmillan) - Margaret Gordon
The Callow Pig Coffer
(1968) - Margaret Gordon
Alderney : The Nunnery
(1968 Turret Books) - 100 signed
(Ed) Running to Paradise : An Introductory selection of the Poems of W B Yeats (1968)
Wordhoard : Anglo-Saxon Stories
(1969 Macmillan) - with Jill Paton Walsh
(Ed) Winter's Tales for Children 3 (1969)
(Trans) Storm and Other Old English Riddles (1970)
Norfolk Poems
(1970) - Ltd Ed. with John Hedgecoe
A Dream of a Meeting
(1970 Frensham, Surrey) - 26

1971-1980
The Pedlar of Swaffham
(1971 Macmillan) - Margaret Gordon
Pieces of Land
(1972)
The Rain Giver & Other Poems
(1972)
The Sea Stranger
(1973)
The Fire Brother
(1974)
Green Blades Rising : The Anglo Saxons
(1975)
The Dream House
(1976 Deutsch £1.95)
The Wild Man
(1976 Deutsch) - Charles Keeping
(Trans) The Exeter Riddle Book (1978)
The Merman
(1976 London) - Charles Keeping
(Ed) The Faber Book of Northern Legends (1977 Faber)
The Norse Myths : A Re-Telling
(1980 Deutsch) - Menna Jamil
(Ed) The Faber Book of Northern Folk tales (1980 Faber)

1981-1990
Between My Father and My Son
(1982)
The Dead Moon
(1982)
(Ed) The Riddle Book (1982)
The Anglo Saxon World
(1982)
Beowulf
(1982 Oxford UP) - Charles Keeping
Time's Oriel
(1984 Hutchinson £4.95)
Tales from the Mabinogion
(1984) - with G Thomas
(Chosen By & Intro) Folk-Tales of the British Isles (1985 Folio Society) - Hannah Firmin
(1986 Faber £9.95) - Hannah Firmin
The Fox and the Cat
(1985 Andersen Press) - Susan Varley
Axe-Age, Wolf Age : A Selection for Children from the Norse Myths
(1985 Deutsch) - Hannah Firmin
Storm
(1985)
Waterslain & Other Poems
(1986)
(Ed) The Oxford Book of Travel Verse (1986 Oxford UP)
British Folk Tales
(1987)
(Ed) Northern Lights : Legends, Sagas and Folk Tales (1987)
The Quest for Olwen
(1988) - with G Thomas
Wulf
(1988)
(Ed) Medieval Lovers (1988)
Old English Elegies
(1988)
The Painting Room : Poems
(1988)
Oenone in January
(1988 Old Stile Press) - 350 signed by Author & John Lawrence
British Folk Tales
(1988 Orchard Books, London) - Peter Melnyczuk
Under the Sun and Over the Moon
(1989)
Sleeping Nanna
(1989)
The Stones Remain
(1989)
(Ed) Medieval Gardens (1990)

After 1991
New and Selected Poems 1965-1990
(1991 Hutchinson £8.99)
Sea Tongue
(1991)
Tales from Europe
(1991)
Long Tom and the Dead Hand & More Tales from East Anglia and the Fen Country
(1992 Deutsch £8.99) - Shirley Felts
The Tale of Taliesin
(1992) - with G Thomas
Eleanor's Advent
(1992 Old Stile Press) - Alyson MacNeil 225 signed by Author & Artist
The Labours of Herakles
(1993)
Norse Myths
(1993)
The Language of Yes
(1996)
Poems from East Anglia
(1997)
(ed) The New exeter Book of Riddles (1998) - with L Sail
The World of King Arthur and His Court
(1999)
The Wuffings : A Play
(1999)
Enchantment
(2000)
Arthur : The Seeing Stone
(2000 Orion)
Selected Poems
(2001)
At the Crossing Places
(2001)
Arthur, King of the Middle March
(2003 Orion £12.99)

Others undated as yet
(Co-Ed) New Poetry 1 (Hutchinson & Arts Council) - with Patricia Beer
Anglo-Saxon Elegies
(Folio Society) - Hannah Firmin
My Son
More Than I Am - with Ralph Steadman
Petal and Stone
Above the Spring Line - with Malte Sartorius

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Folio Society
John Lawrence
Surrey