Terence Sackett writes:

Friends of Coleridge members will be aware that it is part of the society’s constitution to broaden the knowledge about Coleridge and Wordsworth among residents and visitors. Equally important is that we publicise the Coleridge Way and the Quantock landscapes which influenced so much of the writings of the two poets.

I have been working with two local organisations. Stowey Green Spaces improve and publicise the network of local footpaths, as well as maintaining and restoring local woodlands by planting new stands of deciduous trees. Stowey Walking have created a range of walks in and around the village and the Quantock Hills. I have also arranged Coleridge-themed Quantock walks as part of their walking festival.

The photograph shows the official opening of the new interpretation panel I designed for the two organisations. It has been installed in the old gaol by the clock tower, which is to become the village information centre. The printing was generously funded by Nigel and Janet Phillips.
Stowey-based members of the Friends of Coleridge are working closely with the two organisations, and with the Quantock AONB. An expanded and nationally publicised Walking Festival is planned for next year, which will include Coleridge and Wordsworth themed walks.

The Ancient Mariner
Corkscrew Theater Company
Corpus Playroom (Part of ADC Theatre), 10 St Edward's Passage, Cambridge CB2 3PJ
Thu 3 October at 7:00pm, Fri 4 October at 7:00pm, Sat 5 October at 7:00pm

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s gripping and compelling story is retold through this powerful musical drama. One man retells his sad story; how he and his crewmates set sail in good weather, but were soon beset by storm and then ice. In a callous act he shoots from the sky an albatross, and then watches as one after one his crewmates die.But the mariner cannot die. He has been cursed for his crime against nature to be abandoned forever upon the wide, wide sea.

Corkscrew Theatre Company are a local company established in 2014, working to produce high quality and innovative theatre for Cambridgeshire audiences.

To book a ticket, visit https://www.adctheatre.com/ancient

There is a Lawrence's auction on 6 September with some interesting Coleridge items. They include some rather worn Watchman pages, an British Neptune, a Notebooks set, and an early 19th-century envelope containing some of Coleridge's hair.
The link to the online catalogue can be viewed at https://www.lawrences.co.uk/sales/fine-art-sales/fs060919/?p=1&s=40&v=list

In 'Through Mountains to the Sea' (Places journal), John Scanlan travels the A66 through Cumbria, from the Lake District that was transformed from a spectacle of ‘holy terror’ to a tourist destination under the influence of the Romantic poets, to the post-industrial coastal towns of Workington and Whitehaven. 'To drive the A66 is to pass between worlds', he explains, 'from the apparently eternal mountains to the dynamic industrial coast - from the sublime to the subliminal'.

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