The Poets at Dove Cottage Quentin Crisp selected and brilliantly translated by

selected and brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa

Fortunes were won and lost through side stakes and illegal gambling

Dave Murray

and a version of the simplest and most complicated love story of all: that between a mother and a daughter

We venture through strange night-time transformations

The Poets at Dove Cottage Quentin Crisp selected and brilliantly translated byThis unique and vivid collection brings to life Dove Cottage and Grasmere through the eyes of twenty five of our finest poets. Written from so many brilliantly imagined angles, it allows the reader to experience the day to day as it was and is in 'the loveliest spot that Man hath ever found'. William and Dorothy Wordsworth's own writing has pride of place alongside more recent Dove Cottage poets including Fleur Adcock, Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke,