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A journey through England’s most north-westerly county
Wednesday 17th September 2025
Ten Poems from Cumbria
Cumbria is a place of fellside and farmland, of lakes, saltmarsh and rugged coastlines. To the north lies the vast Solway Plain which looks across to Scotland.
The poems in this selection conduct us on a journey of lively contrasts. We encounter weather, sheep, history, rivers, towns, traffic and dialect and experience the vividness of living in a place of “wide-lidded skies”.
This is a selection that crackles with all the colour and energy of England’s most north-westerly county.