Stanza Stones Trail

Simon Armitage was commissioned by the Ilkley Literature Festival in 2010 to write a set of site-specific poems, and the trail was created in 2012.

Armitage wrote six poems on the theme of water in various forms: Beck, Dew, Mist, Puddle, Rain and Snow.

"[2] A book called Stanza Stones, containing the poems and the accounts of Lonsdale and Hall, has been produced as a record of the journey and published by Enitharmon Press.

[3] The poems, complemented with commissioned wood engravings by Hilary Paynter, were also published in limited editions under the title In Memory of Water by Fine Press Poetry.

[4] A group of young writers worked with Armitage to create an anthology of poems linked to the Stanza Stones.