Granta 102 event

Granta 102: The New Nature Writing at the Southbank Centre
London Literature Festival 2008
Friday, July 11, 7 p.m.

Photograph by Justin Partyka

Nature – as we know it – is changing. Economic migration, overpopulation and climate change are transforming the natural world into something unfamiliar. As our conception and experience of nature alters, so too does the way we write about it.

Granta 102 contributors Mark Cocker, Paul Farley and Edward Platt read from their new works and discuss nature writing in the twenty-first century.

Mark Cocker’s seven books include A Tiger in the Sand and Crow Country, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize.

Paul Farley is the author of three collections of poetry including The Ice Age, which was awarded the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2002, and, most recently, Tramp in Flames.

Edward Platt’s Leadville won a Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. He is currently writing a book about the West Bank city of Hebron.

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