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To be honest this photo doesn't give any justice to the weather conditions up at Pule Hill today, there were 30ft snow drifts, the wind was that strong you couldn't stand up, the spindrift was that bad you often couldn't see and it was blasting any exposed flesh. A grand day on the hills!
About the Poem;
POET Simon Armitage is renowned for his verse which captures the environment.
And his latest piece of work is inscribed within the very environment it was inspired by. He’s teamed up with the Ilkley Literature Festival to inscribe six poems at rural spots – the first at Pule Hill, Marsden.
Simon’s poem Snow, specially commissioned for the project, has been engraved into a stone at the National Trust beauty spot.
And Simon explained its inspiration. “I grew up under Pule Hill and used to go up there as a kid so I’m very familiar with Pule Hill,’’ he said.
“Snow was written from a memory I have of walking up there as a kid around Easter time and there was still snow which hadn’t thawed"
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