The project

A Year In Beadnell is a colloration between poet Lisa Matthews and visual artist and digital designer Melanie Ashby. The project has been made possible with the support of several organisations, including Arts Council England, Northumberland County Council, Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership and New Writing North.
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Rachel Carson

A Year in Beadnell has been inspired by the US marine biologist and proto-environmentalist Rachel Carson, best-known for her seminal work on pesticide misuse, Silent Spring. Her lesser-known books about coastal environments are wonderful and Carson's poetry of the sea has been the engine behind this project.

"If there is poetry in my writing [about the sea] it is not because I put it there, but because one cannot write about the sea and leave the poetry out." – Rachel Carson

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A Year in Beadnell

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Rise & fall
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Book
Living Room

Ten grey skies

Sky stitch, his eyes
Black back chatter
Sand under nails
Sea spray, nostrils
Marram-tick, a martin
Edge-of-cloth tatter
Never gone away
Never coming back
Nevergoneaway
Nevercomingback

By Lisa Matthews

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Looking inland up the Longnanny Estuary.

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@rosbarber Didn’t know that but sadly not in the least bit surprised.1 week ago
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