Description
From the windswept Pennine moors to the unspoiled beaches of Northumberland, the North has a landscape like no other place on Earth.
Its rushing waterfalls, ancient woodlands, limestone pavements, and miles of hedgerows and drystone walls have carved out a unique identity that has inspired some of the world’s greatest artists and writers. And yet these cherished places face a multitude of threats from pollution, climate change and urban sprawl.
The fragile beauty of this landscape, and the challenges it faces, are captured in a new anthology, North Country: An Anthology of Landscape and Nature, which brings together writers and poets both past and present. Our panelists include Karen Lloyd who edited this book, poet Helen Mort, journalist and writer Anita Sethi, and award-winning poet and writer Jason Allen-Paisant.
Join them as they discuss what the landscape of the North means to them and why we need to reconnect with nature in order to protect it for future generations.
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Karen Lloyd
Karen Lloyd is the author of prizewinning nature books including The Gathering Tide, The Blackbird Diaries and Abundance: Nature in Recovery. She grew up in South Cumbria, where she has lived for most of her life. She holds a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University and teaches Masters students there, as well as being writer in residence at the university’s Future Places Centre. She has had poems commissioned by the BBC, and is the editor of the North Country anthology.
About the Authors
Helen Mort
Helen Mort FRSL is a British poet and novelist. She is a five-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, received an Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors in 2007, and won the Manchester Poetry Prize Young Writer Prize in 2008.
Jason Allen-Paisant
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer and academic who works as a senior lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. He’s the author of two poetry collections, Thinking with Trees (Carcanet Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry, and the newly publishedSelf-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet Press, 2023). His non-fiction book, Scanning the Bush, will be published by Hutchinson Heinemann in 2024.
Anita Sethi
Anita Sethi was born in Manchester, where her love of nature first flourished in wild urban spaces. Her first book, I Belong Here: a Journey Along the Backbone of Britain received outstanding reviews and was nominated for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, the Portico Prize, Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and Great Outdoors Award. Her writing has also appeared in anthologies and she has written for several newspapers and magazines.
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