Kim Taplin

Kim Taplin (born 1943) is an English poet and non-fiction writer. She studied English at Somerville College, University of Oxford.

Taplin has published several collections of poetry, and non-fiction works.The English Path was noted in the British Council's "Best books" in 1984, and Tongues in Trees: Studies in Literature and Ecology was reviewed in Poetry Review in 1990. Her 1993 work Three Women in a Boat retraces the journey of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. She has written several articles for Resurgence magazine.

Her poem "Trying for truth" was included in a 1991 collection Elected friends: poems for and about Edward Thomas.

• The English Path (1979, Boydell Press ISBN 0851151175; 2nd ed 1999,Perry Green Press, ISBN 978-1902481098)
• Muniments (1987, Jackson's Arm, ISBN 094828207X )
• Tongues in Trees: Studies in literature and ecology (1989, Green Books, ISBN 978-1870098229)
• By the Harbour Wall (1990, Enitharmon Press, ISBN 1870612752)
• Three Women in a Boat (1993, Impact Books, ISBN 1874687137)
• Journeywork : writing from the Whitehill workshops (editor; 1997, ISBN 0953206203)
• For People with Bodies (1997, Flarestack, ISBN 1900397064)
• From Parched Creek (2001, Redbeck, ISBN 0946980837)
• Snow Buntings at Barton Point (2006, Sixties Press, ISBN 0952999471)
• Walking aloud : rambles in the Cherwell Valley (2008, Wychwood Press, ISBN 1902279336)
• Days off in Oxfordshire (2011, Wychwood Press, ISBN 9781902279435)