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Title: Love....And Other Poems
Author : Hilary Seymour-Cole King
Release Date : January 23, 2010
Genre: Poetry,Books,Fiction & Literature,
Pages : * pages
Size : 337 KB

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From island to island ...

Born in England and brought up on the

south coast. Hilary Seymour-Cole King

has never forgotten her English roots. She

was educated there and in London, where

she worked in advertising. She decided

to emigrate to the United States in 1957

in order to study American advertising

methods, and this led to her marriage

to an American who had been a Rhodes

scholar at Oxford.

Hilary had her fi rst poem Spitfi res in the

Sun published at the age of 16 when at

boarding school, and she continued to

write poetry and short stories.

She became an advertising copywriter, an editor of several womens magazines in

New York, and then founded and ran her own Public Relations and Marketing

agency in Manhattan for over 40 years. Hilary has continued to write throughout

the years - whether living in New York or on Shelter Island, where she acquired a

summer house for her children, Alexandra, Edward and Vanessa in the late 70s.

Then, in the 80s, she returned to her fi rst love, Italy, and acquired a 200 year old

ruin in Umbria, in a hamlet called Morra, on the Tuscany border. Originally a

tobacco drying tower, this took nearly four years of money, Italian permits, Italian

workmen, and so on to restore the building and create a casa di campagna, a little

country house.

This house was the joy of her life for many years and she visited it whenever possible.

Now, at 82, Hilary has retired to Shelter Island where she lives permanently.

She has completed her fi rst book of poems and is working on her memoirs of a

childhood in England during World War II. Her greatest joy today is when her

grandchildren, Duncan, Fiona and Liam, visit her. As she says, Shelter Island is

so like England, where you are surrounded by the beauty, peace and quiet of the

countryside and the sea.