A climate change poem for today: Doggerland by Jo Bell

UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy curates a series of 20 original poems by various authors on the theme of climate changeThe land bridge connecting Great Britain to mainland Europe during the last Ice Age was gradually flooded by rising sea levels around 6,500 BC. It was discovered in 1931 when a Norfolk trawler dredged up an unexpected artefact.Out from Cromer in an easy sea, Pilgrim Lockwoodcast his nets and fetched up a harpoon.Twelve thousand years had blunted not one barb.An antler sharpened to a spike, a bony bread knifefrom a time of glassy uplands and no bread:Greetings from Doggerland, it said. Continue reading...