Congratulations to all of the shortlisted candidates for Art Fund #MuseumoftheYear - and great to see our friends at Manchester Museum on the list!

Great conversation with Sir Drummond Bone at National Library of Scotland last night re:
“Treasures: Byron's life in letters”youtube.com/live/Acuy0sB2H… via YouTube

A pleasure to be returning to British Library for our annual Wordsworth Lecture. This year we’re part of a fantastic Byron 'all-dayer' marking the 200th anniversary of the poet's death.

A HUGE thank you to everyone for your support! This means so much to us, and the wonderful people that we work with

There’s some debate about whether we’ve achieved ‘a host’, but if you share Wordsworth’s passion for the daffodil we have both native and ceramic versions aplenty.

The healing power of Grasmere Lovely review of ⁦Esther Rutter⁩ in The Spectator ⁦Wordsworth Grasmere⁩ ⁦@CuratorWT⁩ ⁦Polly Atkin⁩ ⁦Will Smith⁩ ⁦Michael McGregor⁩ ⁦Grasmere WI⁩ spectator.co.uk/article/the-he…

‘Up! Up! my friend, and quit your books’
A gloriously sunny day to be fair, but not really the most helpful advice from Wordsworth when you’re judging Lakeland Book Awards

Amused to find this splendidly passive-aggressive note in the otherwise resolutely scholarly Transactions of the Wordsworth Society in 1885.

For #WorldPoetryDay2024 lines from Wordsworth's great poem, 'Tintern Abbey'
'On that best portion of a good man's life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.'
Through Big Give we aim to bring more kindness, love, and poetry, into people's lives.

What a pleasure to welcome Lady Borwick, Chair of the ⁦VisitEngland⁩ Advisory Board, and Nicola Said on their visit to Cumbria. Big thank you to Cumbria Tourism for including us, and to Lakeland Arts, Theatre by the Lake and Windermere Cruises for a great discussion

To only slightly misquote Wordsworth:
“What happy fortune were it here to Big Give”.
Double your money and help us bring some much needed poetry into people’s lives

Fantastic - well done Elizabeth. I’m so pleased for you!

5 years since I was Poet in Residence at Wordsworth Grasmere!

While there, I worked on poems that became #WhiteGhosts - and a story that went on to be shortlisted for the Desperate Literature Prize & win the Aesthetica Magazine Prize.

So whatever thing you’re considering applying for: do it!

Apply, apply, apply….

Can’t wait for this!

To Westminster for a memorial service for Peter Brooke, former Culture Secretary, and a Trustee, Fellow and dedicated supporter of the Wordsworth Trust, following in the footsteps of his great grandfather, who started it all back in 1891

Copies of the Environmental Poet of the Year pamphlet, by title holder Jane Burn are now available online from Wordsworth Grasmere at the below link + also the British Library shop, link in next post
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museumshops.uk/product/a-thou… Helen Mort Tom Mustill John Aitchison

Ending the day with the official opening of a brilliant exhibition in our Community Gallery. The Diary of Charles Fletcher was researched by Will Clark, working with our Curator Melissa. Huge thanks to ⁦Curating for Change⁩ and ⁦Arts Council England⁩ for making this possible!

One of my very favourite events of the year at Wordsworth Grasmere: our Grasmere Residents pre-Christmas gathering, marking the anniversary of William and Dorothy’s arrival at Dove Cottage on 20 December 1799. Mulled wine 👍 mince pies 👍 Carol singing 👍 🎄❤️

❄️Discover Christmas at Wordsworth Grasmere❄️
Visit us this festive season and see Dove Cottage decorated for Christmas.
Our winter opening hours are Tuesday–⁠Saturday, 10am–⁠4pm.
wordsworth.org.uk/visit/christma…