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What was our place like before all of this?
Tibor Fischer’s short story ‘Crushed Mexican Spiders’ follows a young woman living in Brixton, London, who returns to her flat to find her key no longer works and that someone else is inside living her life. You never find out what is going on, but her sense of displacement is overwhelming, and sometimes it can…
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What is it about birds?
This beautiful shot is of the wader spectacular at RSPB Snettisham during the Literature & Landscape festival weekend last year – taken by Mark Cocker and shared with his kind permission. It is a reminder that North Norfolk’s 100 miles of coastline is part of a super highway for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds,…
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Can you help us?
We need volunteers for our walks. Are you in a position to help? • We are looking for a qualified first-aiders to join each of our walks. Please email info@literatureandlandscape.org if you have a current first-aid certificate and feel confident that you could provide on-the-spot assistance for emergencies among a group of walkers in woodlands…
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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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