Ivy Marks Trembath (1896-1987) was a Tauranga poet. She was born in London as Ivy Marks and came to New Zealand from England in the 1960s with her husband D'Arcy Burral Trembath and became a widower. She remarried late in life. Her death name was Ivy Augusta Wilson.
During World War II she was a Sergeant at the ATS (Authority Territorial Service) Reception Centre in England and her poetry appeared in the Women’s Voluntary Services Bulletin.
A section of her poetry was written about London in her sole New Zealand collection Poems for You self published in 1984 in Tauranga. Her work was broadcast by the BBC and Radio New Zealand. She was a member of the New Zealand Women Writers’ Society and wrote short fiction and radio plays. In 1926 she had her first book of poetry Bells in the Wind published in New York. She was published in various places in England, the US and New Zealand. In New Zealand her poems were published in The Tablet, the Christchurch Star and New Zealand Holiday.
Ivy began writing poetry at age 12 and was the eldest child of the chief librarian of the famous Mudie’s Select Library. Her poetry mentor from her school years was Dr Campbell Morgan, former minister of Westminster Chapel, London, a pastor, preacher and Biblical teacher. Ivy’s poetry was written in traditional rhyme and rhythm and is classic poetry.
I found a cricket poem in her collection that I will add to the Tingling Catch archive.
IVY MARKS TREMBATH
The Fig Tree
The fig tree in St. James Park
Was old when I was small
And played beneath its leafy boughs
With little bat and ball,
And looked above with longing eye
To see the tempting fruit on high.
The fig tree in St. James Park
Still bends its laden bough
Beside the lake and little bridge
As luring then as now;
And as I stand, no longer young,
Beneath the hanging fruit
A childish hand outstretches, swift
To snatch the tempting loot.
And, suddenly, beneath the tree
I see the little ghost of me.
Poem © Ivy Marks Trembath
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