REALISM and imagination come to together in the penultimate event in the popular season of Wordsworth Trust readings next Tuesday at 6pm with wordsmiths Anne and Peter Sansom.

Ann's reputation has blossomed since her first, full-length book of poems was released and she has written and directed two plays for Yorkshire Women's Theatre and (with Peter) a play for Radio 4.

Peter's collections include Everything You've Heard is True (1990) and January (1994) and his textbook, Writing Poems, was recently published by Bloodaxe.

He is a director of The Poetry Business and editor of The North.

The final Grasmere reading on October 10 (6pm) is by 'super league' poet and Australia's unofficial laureate Les Murray.

For further details and bookings call 015394-35544.

Meanwhile, the trust's special exhibition English Poetry 850-1850: the First Thousand Years, continues at Dove Cottage until October 31.

The trust has recently landed a £ 89,500 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to buy a manuscript containing revised drafts of 23 William Wordsworth sonnets later published in Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822).

The important manuscript is unrecorded and until recently was completely unknown to scholars of the famous lakeland poet.

It is a hand made notebook with 46 pages stitched into the original rough brown paper wrappers