Born in Cambridge, Sally Festing’s childhood holidays in North Norfolk may explain a lifelong exploration of the links between people, art and landscape. Her poetry has followed ten years’ journalism, radio plays, academic studies in garden history, Penguin biographies of Barbara Hepworth & Gertrude Jekyll, and other non-fiction. Poems took over with Swimming Lessons, Salaams (Happenstance), Font, Doors Opening (Oversteps) and My Darling Derry (Fair Acre Press) and The White Queen’s Last Stand (KFS).
In Manningtree, she ran a Poetry Society Stanza. Since 2012, she has held Saltmarsh Poetry Readings in North Norfolk’s Burnhams with notable poets such as George Szirtes and Michael Laskey as well as talented young readers. www.saltmarshpoetry.com