The Poets at Dove Cottage Matt Abbott

The Poets at Dove Cottage Matt AbbottThis unique and vivid collection brings to life Dove Cottage and Grasmere through the eyes of twenty five of our finest poets. Written from so many brilliantly imagined angles, it allows the reader to experience the day to day as it was and is in 'the loveliest spot that Man hath ever found'. William and Dorothy Wordsworth's own writing has pride of place alongside more recent Dove Cottage poets including Fleur Adcock, Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke,

one of the most revered writers of modern Portugal

and more recent poems deriving from stays in Madrid

set the rule books on fire

stitch ourselves together and encounter famous goats

but The Redeemer ventures out into the city’s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage

sexual – and on the influence which borders have on how we think of ourselves and others

In her darkest hour

She knows it’s coming

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Often feeling like a ghost

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