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The wild beauty of the flatlands
Friday 29th August 2025
Ten Poems from Norfolk
It’s easy to imagine Norfolk as just wide skies and long flat horizons. This lively selection of poems shows that there’s plenty more to discover in this very easterly corner of Britain.
We explore the county’s history as a centre for the textile industry, meeting the “throwsterers, twisterers and wool-combers” who came over from the Low Countries. There’s a paean to the region’s distinctive pale flint with its “black, cracked-open heart” together with a reminder of “the sunken trees of Doggerland” now lost to the waters.
The anthology captures Norfolk as a place of echoes and deep history whose wild beauty never forgets the tang of the sea.