"The canal is fantastic place to come and sit or wander and there is a good chance you could come over all poetic as you take the sights in. We have a strong stable of literary high achievers from modern word-smiths like Morrissey, Shaun Ryder John Cooper Clarke and Lemn Sissay right the way back through to the Anthony Burgess and Thomas De Quincey author of one of my favourite books 'The Confessions of An English Opium Eater'."