The Call of the Sea Inspired by the call of the sea, for this week’s newsletter we dived into the Slightly Foxed archives and fished around for something suitably watery. We floated past some very good pieces on Swallows and Amazons (Issue 18), Patrick O’Brian (Issues 40, 42, 44) and The Compleat Angler (Issue 54), but we were looking for something a little more unusual. A few more kicks and there it was: nineteenth-century fisherman on the east coast of Scotland, a lost love and plenty of adventure. So off we go to sea, with Galen O’Hanlon on Neil M. Gunn’s The Silver Darlings.
Slightly Foxed at Sea Fever Festival North Norfolk’s Festival of Poetry and Prose, 11–12 May 2018 Sea Fever aims to celebrate all forms of the written word inspired by this exceptional coast-line, and to bring to the coast writers with national reputations. Join our Editors, Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood, as they go behind the scenes at Slightly Foxed. Saturday 12 May • 12.30 p.m. The Sackhouse Wells-next-the-Sea Norfolk NR23 1AU
