COLERIDGE POETRY WALK –
Sunday 13 MAY 2018
Meet at the Land of Canaan Car Park at
2.30 pm
I pass, like night, from land to land;
I have
strange power of speech...
The statue of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge commissioned by the Coleridge Memorial Trust for the
poet's 250th-year celebration will show him as a walker. He thought nothing of
a 20-mile walk and was probably the first writer to describe fell-walking. And
he liked to compose while walking.
Modern walkers and
Coleridge fans will be able on Sunday 13 May to wander
on in gladness on a 2-mile walk in the poet's footsteps. All are
welcome – we meet at the Land of Canaan car park (free) at 2.30 pm (walking
boots - brollies if wet), then walk to key sites associated with his poetry and
its development. At each stop there will be a brief introduction and a reading
from one of Coleridge's poems, including those set in Ottery.
Local writer and
academic, Robert Crick, will be Coleridge for the afternoon – he was described
by Lord Coleridge at an evening performance in St Mary's Church a few years ago
as “the best Coleridge I have heard”. And walkers will be accompanied by some
of Ottery's very own pixies from Ottery Primary School who will also perform
lines from “Songs of the Pixies” at Pixies' Parlour.
The walk and
readings will end at the site proposed for the Memorial Statue in St Mary's
Churchyard, which was the poet's magic playground as a child.
The event is free
and all are welcome but donations towards the commemorative sculpture will be
gratefully received. Please see the Coleridge Memorial Trust's website – www.coleridgememorial.org.uk - for more information and for other payment options for donations.
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