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Sublime heights and shimmering waters
Thursday 10th July 2025
Ten Poems from the Lake District
This addition to our series of UK regional titles brings the drama and beauty of the Lake District landscape into glorious focus. We encounter dry-stone walls, sublime heights, lakes (of course) and experience an evening dip in the cooling waters of a tarn.
The selection wouldn’t be complete without a poem by Wordsworth who captures the tranquillity of a quiet valley in a moment of typically blissful contemplation. There’s also a sonnet that brings us all the way into the present, while celebrating the fact that the sublime will always outlive any human interference.
Poems selected and introduced by Polly Atkin, a poet who lives and works in the Lake District.