I remember – I doubt in fact I shall ever forget – my first visit to the Simon Aspinall Wildlife Education Centre at Cley; it rendered me speechless. As an American, I am perpetually in awe of the astonishing wildlife reserves I have the privilege to visit in the UK, but this one truly was like nothing I had seen before, even among all the other jewels of the British wildlife reserves.
Thus I was pleased to see that Mark’s Sunday Book Review this week, penned by Ian Carter, took The Worshipful Companies; Images and Poems from the Norfolk Coast by Stuart Medland as its subject. The second in Medland’s works about the area (the first, Rings in the Shingle; Images and Poems about Wildlife at the North Norfolk Coast, was published in 2014), Carter assesses its verses, its photographs, and its companionability as an accompaniment to a cozy evening by the fire.
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