The Wordsworth Trust’s 2014 poetry season started in style on Tuesday 6th of May with readings from Neil Curry and Trust perennial Fleur Adcock. Neil Curry started the evening by reading from Some Letters Never Sent, a selection of monologues addressed to various people, both living and dead. Appropriately Curry began with a poem in praise […]
The Dorothy Wordsworth Festival Finalé. Sinéad Morrissey, Gillian Allnutt, Carol Ann Duffy. Sunday 13th April 2014, 7pm St Oswald’s Church. The Wordsworth Trust invited young writers from across the county to apply to spend the weekend of the Dorothy Wordsworth Festival of Women’s Poetry in Grasmere attending readings, workshops, and events. Our three young reviewers […]
From the Avant-Garde to the lovely ladies from down the street, poetry night at Zeffirellis Jazz Bar is a place open to all people. The vibe is one of calmness and a welcoming atmosphere. People performed poetry using cadence on all subjects, right the way through to elegies for explorers. This was a night full […]
The Wordsworth Trust’s poetry season came to a lively and energetic conclusion on Tuesday 8th of October with Roger McGough’s first reading for the Trust. At first sight of the poet, one worried whether his apparently frail frame would be up to the task of reaching the corners of St Oswald’s church and the hundreds […]
Here in Grasmere we have been spoilt with unseasonably good weather of late, though the cooler and darker evenings remind us that summer is now well behind us. No matter, a cosy autumnal evening in doors listening to superbly engaging poetry seems a fair compromise for the fading light outside. The penultimate reading of the […]
What better way to cap off August than with a spot of poetry on a warm summer’s evening? Last Tuesday the room at the Daffodil Hotel was close to capacity as the Wordsworth Trust welcomed back two of its former Poets in Residence; Helen Mort and Jacob Polley. Helen Mort, the Trust’s youngest ever Poet […]
It was a real privilege to attend the poetry reading on the evening of Tuesday August 13th, hosted once again from The Daffodil Hotel. During this latest in a series of excellent readings, The Wordsworth Trust were proud to welcome Michael Symmons Roberts and James Lasdun; two thoroughly entertaining contemporary poets, both presenting new, rich […]
The latest in the Wordsworth Trust’s Poets on Poets series, George Szirtes’ conversational introduction to the lives and works of Martin Bell and Bill Scammell was as vigorous, humorous and witty as Bell and Scammell themselves. George was taught by Bell at Leeds College of Art in the 1960s, where Bell’s afternoon poetry seminars formed […]
After a fortnight of unseasonably good weather in Grasmere, Tuesday evening proved a particularly dreary and muggy return to form. Thankfully, the fifty-strong audience who attended the poetry reading at The Daffodil Hotel were not dismayed by the rain outside and were treated to a wonderfully incandescent reading courtesy of Helen Ivory and George Szirtes. […]
Tuesday 16th of July saw, somewhat to the surprise of most Grasmere residents, the continuation of a period of hot weather which is now threatening to constitute an actual summer. Therefore it was fitting that the second half of the week’s poetry reading in the Daffodil Hotel was so summery in nature. The first half, […]
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