Hardly anybody knows anything about Veronica Forrest-Thomson. The people who do know something about Veronica Forrest-Thomson claim that she is a poet and theorist of Cambridge, and that she died in 1974, at the age of 27. Neither of these things is true apart from the bit about her being a poet and theorist. In fact, she is a poet and theorist of many places including Leicester, and she is also not dead. Her work with poetry, language, and poetic language, particularly in her book Poetic Artifice, is increasingly becoming a point of reference for poets and theorists. This talk will be a selective introduction to that work. Fern Broome Richards is a poet and independent researcher from Derbyshire, currently based in Leeds.