News
The hills and edges of the White and Dark Peaks
Thursday 10th July 2025
Ten Poems from the Peak District
This mini anthology belongs to our popular series of UK regional titles, and features poems that capture the vivid landscapes and atmospheres of the Dark and White Peaks.
There’s a celebration of the very particular Derbyshire tradition of well dressing, alongside poems that take us up onto the high moors and down into the tunnels under Ladybower Reservoir via iron age forts and Dovedale’s “blue river”. At an iconic Dark Peak landmark, we encounter a raw landscape whose drama tricks the mind into altered perceptions.
The selection is proof (if needed) that the Peak District is equal to the Lake District in its power to fire the imaginations of poets who live in it – or who simply love it for its wild beauty.
Poems selected and introduced by Katharine Towers who lives in the White Peak.