North Country: An Anthology of Landscape and Nature

Published by Saraband (November 2022) and edited by Karen Lloyd, North Country is a celebration of Northern culture and literature featuring a diverse set of voices from across the region and beyond. The book is made up of four sections. Opening with ‘Inflorescence,’ this section features new and emerging writers including Geoff Cox, Clare Proctor, Clare Burnett, Anne Taylor, Stephen Dunston and more. In ‘Retrospection’ we meet old literary friends such as William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas Bewick, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Harriet Martineau, Kathleen Raine, Norman Nicholson and the Brontes. In ‘Resistance’ are writers whose work resists more mundane narratives of place and nature, including Maxwell Ayamba on kneeling black figures in country houses, Jason Allen-Paissant, Michael Simmonds Roberts, Po Yarwood and Jo Clements. In ‘Restoration’ are contemporary writers whose work encounters the kinds of essential changes being undertaken to restore nature and allow it to thrive, including Lee Schofield and Kerry Darbishire, and also prose and poetry that allows us to encounter nature in new and unanticipated ways, including Zafar Kunial, Dani Cole, Simon Armitage, Helen Mort, Mike Barlow and Jane Routh.

In North Country some of the most celebrated writers allow us into unexpected corners where we begin to see the North in new and unexpected ways.

‘A unique and compelling read.’ Julie Coldwell. Magnetic North.

Please follow the link to read a review; https://www.mag-north.com/posts/north-country-an-anthology-of-landscape-and-nature-edited-by-karen-lloyd