One of the Authors featured in Literary Norfolk
Kevin Crossley (1941-)
'This flux, this anchorage. / Here you watch, you write, you tell tides. / You walk clean into the possible.'
Based in Burnham Market, poet and award-winning children's writer Crossley-Holland now lives close to the 'Waterslain' (an old Norfolk word meaning flooded) land of his childhood. There is a great feeling of 'looking back to move forward' about his work, not least with his Anglo-Saxon translations such as Beowulf and adaptations of English folk tales. Crossley-Holland's poetry (eg. Waterslain - 1986) is fluid, spare, and evocative, epitomising the shape-shifting landscape of the North Norfolk coast
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