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Tag: North Norfolk coast

November 10, 2020

While we are otherwise engaged

In the solitude of lockdown and the peaceful safety of a village on the Broads, news drips in slowly. If it wasn’t for social media and local TV news, we might forget for a minute that the sea is creeping ever nearer, destroying sea defences, toppling homes from cliffs, and eating up the coast while […]

Posted in Poems. Tagged Coastal erosion, dverse Poets Pub, North Norfolk coast, Poetry as Witness, Tuesday Poetics. 48 Comments
April 3, 2019

Cheese on Toast

I remember when we used to walk hand in hand along a sandy road that led to North Sea dunes, so deep into the night the lights had gone out in all the houses; we were guided by a sky full of stars and every time the moon disappeared, a nosy neighbour behind a curtain […]

Posted in Poems. Tagged Cheese on Toast, Day 3, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, North Norfolk coast, Poems in April. 29 Comments
March 26, 2019

Into the Sea

We are crumbling, eroding into ­                       the sea with our pigmentations of blue, brown and green, accompanied by a withering wind and scent of rain. Dithering on mouldering marsh and ­                                […]

Posted in Poems about Norfolk. Tagged Doggerland, dverse Poets Pub, Geography, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Mammoth, North Norfolk coast, Tuesday Platform, Tuesday Poetics. 48 Comments
January 24, 2019

Giants once roamed here… (revised)

in a mist that rolls along the North Sea coast. Looming through thousands of years, woolly mammoths weathered waves on a journey to extinction. Among mounds of stones and sand at the foot of crumbling cliffs, where Norfolk juts its chin, waves roll out and crash back in, devouring the coast from Yarmouth to King’s […]

Posted in Poems about Norfolk. Tagged Climate change, Midweek Motif, North Norfolk coast, Poets United. 24 Comments
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