From Friday 4th to Sunday 6th Oct at The Maltings, Wells-next-the-Sea, the inaugural Literature and Landscape festival will celebrate the unique landscapes of North Norfolk and the British Isles.
Alice Oswald, Robert Macfarlane and Adam Nicolson will read from their own work and talk about rivers: how we connect with them, how we own, nurture and restore them.
Conservationist and author Jake Fiennes and chair of Natural England Tony Juniper will discuss landscape recovery and sustainable management with BBC Countryfile presenter Joe Crowley.
Crime novelist Henry Sutton and best-selling author Rachel Hore will read from their work and discuss the role of landscape, setting and place in fiction.
Exhibitions will include paintings of the North Norfolk coast by James Cockburn, ‘A Piscatorial Alphabet’ of woodcuts by Jonathan Gibbs (who designed the festival logo above) and photographs of chalk streams by Charlie Hamilton-James.
On Poetry Sunday Alice Oswald will read from and talk about her poetry with Matthew Hollis. Poet Jane Lovell and author and naturalist Mark Cocker will read from their work and discuss nature connection with poet and naturalist, Matt Howard.
Friday 4th October will be be the festival’s Schools Day: award-winning poet, children’s and YA author Richard Lambert and TV personality, vet and children’s author Jess French will run reading and writing workshops for local school pupils.
Tickets to each event are only £10, with weekend passes also available. See the full lineup and buy tickets here. Catch a glimpse of the beautiful surrounding landscape below.