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Future plans

We will continue to explore Wordsworth’s legacy through our public activities, which increasingly feature a diverse mix of voices and perspectives. By establishing a panel of advisors drawn from representatives of the communities that we work with, we will ensure that our activities address their interests and expectations. Working with our partners in the Cumbria Museum Consortium, we will have applied to Arts Council England for further National Portfolio funding for the period 2023–26, so that the activities through which we enrich the lives of people of all ages can continue.

Specific objectives for 2022/23 include:

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Presenting a programme of exhibitions including Refuge from the Ravens (a 21st-century ‘remix’ of the Lyrical Ballads, featuring the contributions of people with experience of homelessness and other vulnerable people), To the Lakes!, an exhibition about travellers to the Lake District during the Wordsworths’ early lives, (Re)Acting Romanticism: Disability and Women Writers, and The Romantic Ridiculous.

Touring pop-up displays drawn from the Still Glides the Stream and Dorothy: Writer, Sister, Friend exhibitions to community venues in and beyond Cumbria.

Enhancing the interpretation of the Garden–Orchard and developing the garden at the front of Old Sykeside, with an emphasis on biodiversity, as part of a University of Leeds research project, ‘Experiments in “Here is language so vital and visceral it Land and Society’. almost catches re as you read it. Here are people rendered invisible by society writing poems in vivid and visible ink; poems as calls to action, as pleas for the ignored. Working with Lancaster University and the University This is a very special book.” ian m c millan of Leicester to lead a review into how literary house museums can best tell their stories in a post-colonial world. Hosting two poets in residence, and publishing (with the Poetry Business) a poetry anthology to mark nearly thirty years of residencies for poets at Wordsworth Grasmere. Publishing in full (for the first time), Dora Wordsworth’s continental journal of 1828. Playing our part in the ‘Helping Hands’ project, for which the Cumbria Museum Consortium successfully received Government funding to create inclusive volunteering opportunities across Cumbria’s cultural sector. Implementing an anti-racism programme for trustees and staff. Acting on the findings of an energy and carbon audit of our non-public buildings carried out in March 2022, and addressing the maintenance needs of those properties on our estate that did not form part of the recent Reimagining Wordsworth project.

I am not a haunting

Nobody knows, they just keep on walking Right through me. In 1798 Lyrical Ballads by the poets Wordsworth and Coleridge sparked a literary revolution. Poems in everyday language told of people on the margins of society.

Refuge from the Ravens is a twenty-rst century remix — made by people with experience of homelessness, and other vulnerable people, using poetry, art and song.

REFUGE FROM THE RAVENS

New Lyrical Ballads

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Wordsworth rewritten by homeless Britain

REFUGE

New Lyrical Ballads for FROM THE

the 21st Century RAVENS

Edited by Philip Davenport & Julia Grime

Above: Publications and other projects in 2022/23: Canals, Castles and Catholics, Dora Wordsworth’s continental tour of 1828, edited by Dr Cecilia Powell supported by the W.W. Spooner Charitable Trust and published in full for the first time; The Poets at Dove Cottage (in association with the Poetry Business), works by poets and writers with an association with Grasmere and / or the Wordsworth Trust; Refuge from the Ravens (in association with Zweibelfish CIC), a Lyrical Ballads ‘remix’ by vulnerable people today

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