Tag Archives: Nature

Winter News 2023

Winter Workshops As well as Women In Art writing classes starting up next Spring, it’s gorgeous to be running Winged and Wild Winter Wonderland workshops for children again on the Broads National Park in the Christmas holidays – morning and afternoon sessions available. We’ll be helping winter wildlife, making lanterns, ice sculpture, enjoying magical trails… Read More »

Summer News 2023

Summer Holiday Workshops Natural Wonder Poetry Trail A Wild Water & Marshes boat trip workshop from Thorpe Ferry will accompany an extract from my poem Dreaming of Albion, Sailing With Maud (commissioned by Norfolk County Council) and is being installed near the ferry for the Summer holidays as part of the Natural Wonder Poetry Trail.… Read More »

‘Shore Song’ poem published in Wicked Leeks magazine

My poem Shore Song, inspired by the founding story of the RSPB and humanity’s ability to restore or destroy biodiversity is published in the new edition of Wicked Leeks magazine. I had the spark of an idea to write it after spotting a little egret in the reeds in East Norfolk while working on my… Read More »

The Case of the Missing Eel – Cley Marshes, Norfolk Wildlife Trust

It was a joy to spend a day working with families and children at Cley Marshes for Norfolk Wildlife Trust in April surrounded by the stunning marine photography of Jack Perks – whose underwater filming many of us will have seen on David Attenborough’s Wild Isles. We explored marine life and eel habitat, reflected and… Read More »

The Last Eel on Earth, illustrated in partnership with Plymouth University

Poem Last Eel on Earth was born in 2021 – illustrated in partnership with the University of Plymouth. Inspired by my passion for writing as a form of empowered storytelling that can have impact on the world around us, it raises awareness of eel as a species, its extraordinary journey and illegal eel trafficking. It’s… Read More »

The Magic of Nature, commission by RSPB

Happy National Poetry Day 2022. This Autumn, am commissioned by the RSPB to help children create a trail of poems inspired by the ‘magic of nature’, for this coming October half term, plus a collaborative poem written with the children as part of a public art piece by Sarah Munro, being installed at the beautiful… Read More »

Holt Fairy Door Trail / Tree Installation at Fakenham Library this June 2022

Lovely to see lots of happy children from the Holt Community Primary School with fairy doors they designed with Norwich Men’s Shed in the North Norfolk News this week as part of a new Natural Wonder fairy door trail in Holt. Read tree inspired poems giving thanks to trees written on a workshop with me… Read More »

Fairy Doors Trail now at Cary’s Meadow, The Broads National Park

We’re delighted that our Fairy Doors Trail is now installed on Cary’s Meadow, with an interactive illustrated map by artist Joe Fear that unlocks stories written by children across Norfolk, inspired by biodiversity and the natural world. These are the first wave of fabulous works by children aged 6-11 and there will be more coming… Read More »

Finding Natural Wonder: Two Rivers Book Festival Podcast

From author Nick Hayes, talking on public access to land, Right to Roam campaign and The Book of Trespass, to Waveney River Trust’s Emily Winter discussing all things river restoration and her love of soil, Wilding by Isabella Tree, to co-founder of TOAST Poetry Daisy Henwood, talking on the rise and rise of nature writing… Read More »

Natural Wonder: Inspiring Connection to the Natural World

It’s a joy to be working on Natural Wonder this year to accompany the creation of a new series of poems inspiring connection to the natural world funded by Arts Council England. I’m writing poems inspired by the natural world, biodiversity and connection to nature with educational and wellbeing resources to help people, schools, communities… Read More »