Tag Archives: Norwich

Nature Explorers + Food and Fun for Families

This Christmas Nature Explorers is offering free food and festive fun to families. We have teamed up with Families Connect, plus Food for Friends – Norwich to offer food parcels and activities to families in the Christmas holidays. Go out into nature and find twigs, feathers, leaves. Try a riverside walk, walk round Norwich Cathedral… Read More »

The Art of Science – Reporting on Norwich Science Festival

It’s a pleasure to be back at the National Centre for Writing, helping a new cohort of young people supported by Norfolk Arts Trust prepare to report on Norwich Science Festival this month. It’s amazing how often science influences culture – and vice versa, so we are kickstarting our training by looking at inspiring things… Read More »

New poem ‘Persephone Wakes’ published in anthology, ‘Like The Sea I Think’

I have a new poem published in the anthology, ‘Persephone Wakes’, written in response to climate emergency, in a new anthology of marine fiction from Norfolk, ‘Like The Sea I Think’. It launches in the Book Hive, Norwich, May 28th 6pm. Persephone was the goddess of Spring and according to ancient myth, was kidnapped by… Read More »

‘Yarmouth Sublime’ – Public Art Poem at Great Yarmouth Station Forecourt

Saturday, they come: the station heaving, a thousand dreaming, of sea air sublimeTram engines glisten, as Awdry listens, ‘‘It’s Toby the Tram!’’ Thomas whistles and chimesStroll here to open your eyes: a truss of a walk, between three ways, entwinedVauxhall Bridge clatters, arches stoic – a frisson of steam trains, thundering through timeHerring, coal and… Read More »