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Important! Coleridge Summer Conference 2020 cancelled

We regret to announce that the 2020 Coleridge Summer Conference in the Lake District has had to be cancelled, owing to the Coronavirus pandemic.

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An imagined walk from Racedown to Crewkerne with Coleridge and the Wordsworths, by David Stevens

David Stevens, a loyal Friend of Coleridge, has written an account of the walk that STC, Dorothy and William Wordsworth took from Racedown to Crewkerne in June 1797. It is a vividly imagined description of conversation and place.

Click here to read a PDF file of the work, which David hopes to develop into an illustrated booklet. It is well worth a read!

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Daily online reading of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

Jeremy Irons, Tilda Swinton and Hilary Mantel are collaborating to read Coleridge’s most famous poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’. It has been divided into 40 readings.

The readers, who also include Alan Bennett and Lemn Sissay, each recorded a sequence of three to four verses to be broadcast online, day by day. Once complete, it will be available to listen to as ‘one symphonic piece’.

Author Philip Hoare, who curated the project, said: ‘It is no coincidence, perhaps, that this poem is the first great work of English literature to speak to isolation and loneliness. For those facing restricted access to culture in these difficult times, the Ancient Mariner Big Read offers a new digital work of art to be experienced at home – in a wild voyage into the unknown and watery world.’

The readings are accompanied by works from artists including Cornelia Parker, Marina Abramovic, and Gavin Turk.

You can listen to each of the daily reads at www.ancientmarinerbigread.com

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Cancelled! Friends of Coleridge AGM, 28 March

It was intended that the Friends of Coleridge AGM be held at 10.30am on 28 March in the Garden Room, Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey. All welcome.

But ... owing to the dreaded Coronavirus it has been cancelled.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Family Tree

Sarah Platt, Rosemary Coleridge Middleton's daughter, has sent me a Coleridge family tree. I have reconstructed it as an A3-size PDF. If you reduce the size in your print settings to A4, it is perfectly legible.

Click here for the PDF.

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