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'So good' InPrint poet wins East Anglian Book Award
Poetry reading at the launch of The Pastons’ Country book and exhibition at the Cromer and Sheringham Arts Festival on October 23 was given added impact by the presence of a winner in the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards.
InPrint poet Caroline Gilfillan won the poetry section with her recently published poetry book Yes (Hawthorn Press), which explores love and loss through a deep engagement with the natural world. Judge Professor Jean Boase-Beier , head of the UEA's school of literature and creative writing, said on giving her the award: "There is wonderful use of sound and imagery, near-perfect control of language. A poet who works hard, and makes the reader work hard. This poetry is so good."
Caroline, who lives at Fakenham, read one of her poems that appears in The Pastons' Country as an opener to the reading in the Garden Gallery, and in typically modest fashion chose a poem by someone else as her second contribution. This was by Lucy Care, the instigator of the Paston project, who is at present in hospital.
Tim Lenton of InPrint also read at the event, as did some of the others who contributed to the Paston book: Rob Knee, Dot Cobley and Adrian Ward. A dozen people attended on a wet and stormy evening.
Cromer's Paston exhibition taken down
The mini-Paston exhibition hung at the North Norfolk District Council offices in Cromer for a couple of weeks was taken down on a cold and damp 17 November, with Paston Heritage Society chairperson Lucy Care and InPrint poet Tim Lenton in attendance. The exhibition consisted of about 24 framed prints hung in a corridor on the first floor outside the restaurant, and we were given to understand that it had been very well received.
Meanwhile a third hand-made Paston Country book has been sold.