Opening night of the poetry season

The Wordsworth Trust Summer poetry program began last night in St Oswald's Church, Grasmere. Tomas Venclova and Ellen Hinsey were the opening readers of this new season and went down very well in the beautiful setting of St Oswald's Church, just a few meters from William Wordwsworth's final resting place. The supper in attendance by the poets, held at Dale Lodge Hotel was first class with a main course of panfried seabass with buttered spinach and crushed new potatoes. The dessert of Strawberry Eton mess was perfectly light and put a lovely end to the evening. Look out for further poetry evening once a fortnight all summer long.