Love....And Other Poems

By Hilary Seymour-Cole King

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 23, 2010
• ISBN: 9781462841592

Hilary Seymour-Cole King

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.

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Love… and other poems

Hilary Seymour-Cole King

Copyright © 2010 by Hilary Seymour-Cole King.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

New York

Shelter Island

Italy

This, my first complete book of poems, is dedicated to all the people and places that have meant so much to me.

Acknowledgements

My grateful thanks to the following for their hard work and enthusiasm in putting this little book together:

Diane Valentine, and