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Schools’ poetry competition 2024
Our poetry competition is in full swing – open to all schools in North Norfolk. We want to hear what our local children have to say about the landscape and wildlife which surround them in this rural coastal strip. Here is our invitation: The competition started when our festival was called Poetry-next-the-sea back in the…
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This would be the perfect setting for…
….a grim discovery? some significant item lost? a betrayal witnessed? a secret tryst? inner turmoil? a reconciliation? Which dramatic moment would you locate in which of these settings? Photographs © Patrick Rangeley What is it about a place? It might be vast and open – a marsh, clifftop or expanse of sea – or small…
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Country Life Podcast
This week’s podcast from Country Life is an interview with the festival organisers. James Fisher is a charming, amusing and expert host, who drilled down into what the festival is all about – the power of literature and art, the natural world and landscapes, and how they inform and inspire one another. Here’s a link…
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Early-bird marsh boat trip added to our schedule for Sunday morning
Our walks are selling out but we’ve added a special trip for a dozen festival goers to explore the salt marshes round East Hills by boat for an hour first thing on Sunday morning. This area is inaccessible except at very low tide and even then not safely without specialist local knowledge. Nick Groom, our…
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Our wonderful logo
About our wonderful new logo: the woodcut we’re using four our logo was made for us by the Edinburgh printmaker, illustrator and artist Jonathan Gibbs. It includes elements of the north Norfolk landscape – the sea, shingle bars, salt-marshes, chalk streams and rolling downland – enfolded in an open book. A wonderful and evocative design.…
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