RD/LIT/1/6 - 'Words by the Water'

Reference code

RD/LIT/1/6

Level of description

Sub-file

Title

'Words by the Water'

Date/s

2001

Subject

Literature festivals

Scope and content

Contains ms by RD [as background material for his talks] at the Cumbrian Literature Festival, Keswick, 2001. The festival was organised by Ways With Words. Contains brochures on the festival and RD’s writings which can also be found elsewhere in the collection. Includes: an introduction and proposal to 'Touching Wood'; 'Waterlog' (it began in the moat …); 'Extras – garden'; 'The Importance of Pottering'; 'First Fruit'; 'Working Together for the Arts, consultation meeting at Newbury'; 'Rivers and Poems'; 'Wild Swimming'; 'Bicycles'; 'Dartmoor'; a letter to Year 10 English Class; poems: 'The Ghost of Dead Energy'; and an article by Derek Griffiths 'Swimming the Lakes', published in 'Conserving Lakeland', 2001.

RD - Roger Deakin Archive
- RD/LIT - Lectures and General Writing
  - RD/LIT/1 - Lectures, talks, courses & festivals
    - RD/LIT/1/6 - 'Words by the Water'

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