Esmé Gladys Hooton (1914–1992)[1] was an English poet. She is the author of two collections of poetry: City Sonnets, published by Routledge in 1947, and Zoo, published by Peter Scupham's Mandeville Press in 1980 with illustrations by David Holbrook and an introduction by John Mole.[2] [3] Three poems from City Sonnets—"The Prophet," "Poor Bloom," and "At the Touch of Summer"—were included by Geoffrey Grigson in his 1949 anthology Poetry of the Present.[4] Hooton's poem "The Thickening Veil" was set to music by composer Ivor Walsworth, and performed at Wigmore Hall in 1955.[5] Though unpublished for 24 years, Zoo had been featured on BBC Home Service in 1956, read as a sequence with incidental music by Elisabeth Lutyens.[6] Hooton's work was also featured on the Home Service in 1943 and on BBC Radio 3 in 1983.[7] [8]