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What is so unique about Katrina Porteous – winner (announced yesterday evening) of the prestigious Laurel Prize
She won! The Laurel is the Poetry Society’s annual prize for environmental writing – poetry about nature and place, and we are thrilled that Katrina won – for her collection Rhizodont. We love that Katrina… • …embedded herself in a dwindling traditional fishing community near her grandparents’ house in Northumberland nearly 40 years ago. Katrina…
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Beatrice Forshall illustrates…
Over two years as artist-in-residence with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, Beatrice Forshall explored the stories and features of the many strange and wonderful flora and fauna that are quietly disappearing from our planet. Her book – Vanishing Species – is a celebration of those extraordinary life forms. Watch this 3-minute video involving Beatrice, sheets of…
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Remember Literature & Landscape 2024…?
With tickets now selling fast for 2025, here’s a quick reminder of what we did last year…. please take a look. From Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th October we have more great walks and talks for you, more discussions, another boat trip and an exhibition – all celebrating nature, the arts and our unique, amazing…
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Schools’ poetry competition 2025 now open
Our theme for this year is Life by the Sea and we are absolutely delighted that the wonderful Sir Alan Hollinghurst has agreed to be our judge. The deadline has been changed to 15th September so that schools can choose between an end-of-year poetry-writing project in the last fortnight of the summer term or doing…
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Sir Alan Hollinghurst will join us in 2025…
In the 250th anniversary year of Jane Austen’s birth, a very special writer is coming to North Norfolk…. We are delighted that Sir Alan Hollinghurst will be taking part in our Literature & Landscape festival in North Norfolk in October 2025 to talk with John Mullan about Hollinghurst’s most recent haunting novel, Our Evenings and…




