Heritage in Poetry

Today and tomorrow see the annual Heritage Open Days, with places of historical interest opening their doors free to visitors. This morning I spent an hour at Gloucester Cathedral in the company of the poet Peter Wyton and it proved an entertaining and enlightening event!

A few years ago Peter published a book entitled "The Ship In The City" - sadly now out of print - and he read from it a broad selection of poems about people, real and imagined, who played some part in the early life of Gloucester and its places of worship. Tradespeople and kings, scribes and stonemasons, Edward Jenner and Henry VIII were brought back to life in his whirlwind review of a couple of millenia. A fascinating morning - thank you, Peter.