The Wordsworth Trust has produced a new CD recording of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, read by Shakespearean actor (and Lord of the Rings' Gandalf!) Sir Ian McKellen. Telephone 015394 35888 or visit www.wordsworthshop.co.uk to purchase your copy.

The CD accompanies a new exhibition at the Wordsworth Museum beside Dove Cottage, Grasmere, entitled The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: the Poem and its Illustrators. Opening on 22nd November, it will present a selection of illustrations inspired by the poem throughout the past 180 years.
 
Carcanet publish Selected Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by William Empson, and will publish the Selected Poems of his daughter, Sara Coleridge, in January (both in the Fyfield series).