Tag Archives: Wordsworth
Poetry Reading: August Kleinzahler & Tom Pickard
Although the two poets at the Trust’s latest reading came from very different places, they had much to unify them. Pickard is from Newcastle whereas Kleinzahler originates in New Jersey, but they both came with recommendations from Allen Ginsberg (the influence of the Beats was evident in both of their readings), studied under Basil Bunting, […]
Poetry Reading: Robert Hass & Philip Gross
It was a warm summer evening in Grasmere last Tuesday —with only slight hints of the coming rain that would fall upon the valley the next morning—when guests gathered from all over to the Daffodil Hotel for another night of contemporary poetry. Almost all the seats in the Prince of Wales room were filled as […]
Poetry Reading: Jen Hadfield & David Constanstine
Jen Hadfield kicked off last Tuesday evening’s poetry reading with an interesting self-introduction: her works, she informed us, concern “strange beasties” of the Shetland shores. “I have a bit of a fetish about them,” she explained with a slight smile that was, somehow, both welcoming and introspective. Coming from an English background, with family in […]
Poetry Reading: Thomas A. Clark and Angélica Freitas
If the heart of the Wordsworth Trust beats around a hallmark poet of English literature, Tuesday evening’s poetry reading indicated the organisation’s respect for and interest in international contributors to the poetic scene. Traveling from their homes in Scotland and Brazil, the evening’s featured poets—Thomas A. Clark and Angélica Freitas—brought words, landscapes, and cultures to […]
Poetry Reading: Fleur Adcock & Neil Curry
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 […]
Priscila Uppal and Tishani Doshi: 23rd April 2013
Tuesday 23rd April saw the first event of the summer poetry season in the new location of the bright and modern Daffodil Hotel, where we were lucky enough to be joined by Priscila Uppal and Tishani Doshi who are currently on a tour of the UK. Tishani was born in India to Welsh-Gujarati parents. After […]
Grasmere Poetry 