Site of the Belper Poetry Trail, © 2005-11

 

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Please note!

You can get a full trail leaflet which includes a map, from Belper Library or Strutt's North Mill. Alternatively send an SAE to Belper Poetry Trail, c/o 150B Belper Lane, Belper, Derbys, DE56 2UH.

The numbering of the poems given below is based on the order in which they were installed. It is not a suggested order for walking the trail route.

 
Poem 1
Location:Railway Station
Poem:The Steam Engine
Author:Gareth Shepherd
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The Steam Engine on Platform 1
Poem 2
Location:Railway Station
Poem:From a Railway Carriage
Author:R L Stevenson
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Railway Station Poem 2
Poem 3
Location:Chucklebutties Play and Party Centre
Poem:Rain
Author:Spike Milligan
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Chucklebutties Play and Party Centre
Poem 4
Location:Queen's Head Pub
Poem:I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
Author:Emily Dickinson
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Queen's Head Pub
Poem 5
Location:Belper Library
Poem:New Eyes Each Year
Author:Philip Larkin
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Belper Library
Poem 6
Location:The River Gardens
Poem:Everything Flows
Author:Heraclitus
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The River Gardens
Poem 7
Location:Bench at Strutt's North Mill
Poem:Trees
Author:Joyce Kilmer
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Bench at Strutt's North Mill
Poem 8
Location:Cluster Road
Poem:Words On a Wall
Author:Jean Sealey
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Jean Sealey and her poem in Cluster Road
Poem 9
Location:Short Row
Poem:From My Bedroom Window
Author:Beth Fender
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Beth's poem on the back wall of Spinner's Cottage
Poem 10
Location:St John's Churchyard
Poem:Heaven - Haven
Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins
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St John's Church
Poem 11
Location:Belper Parks Nature Reserve
Poem:Cloths of Heaven
Author:WB Yeats
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Belper Parks Nature Reserve
Poem 12
Location:Festival Gardens
Poem:Prayer in a Garden
Author:Bert Hinckley
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Festival Gardens
Poem 13
Location:Belper Market Place
Poem:Flowers
Author:Wendy Cope
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Festival Gardens
Poem 14
Location:Calders Corner
Poem:Vital Valley
Author:Cathy Grindrod
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Calder's Corner
Poem 15
Location:Belper Unitarian Chapel
Poem:To Nature
Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Belper Unitarian Chapel
Poem 16
Location:Belper River Gardens
Poem:Ducks
Author:Frank W Harvey
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Bronze ducks in the River Gardens
Poem 17
Location:Field Lane Convent
Poem:Love Warms
Author:Beth Fender
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Close-up of 'Love Warms'
Poem 18
Location:Memorial Gardens
Poem:High Flight
Author:John Gillespie Magee
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Memorial Gardens Entrance with 'High Flight'
Poem 19
Location:River Gardens
Poem:Three Swallows in the River Meadows
Author:Stuart Mills
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Stuart Mills poem in the River Gardens

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