MATT WHITBY

P H O T O G R A P H Y

DEAN PARKIN is half-Suffolk – Lowestoft mother, Yorkshire father. A childhood with two ways of saying everything. No wonder he became a poet!

POEM FOR SUFFOLK sees Dean unleash his ‘local’ side and share discoveries from a year-long mission across the county — to meet people of all ages and help them create their own poems about their Suffolk lives.

And the result? An entertaining mix of talkin’ proper, film and music presented by Dean with his long-term collaborator MAURICE HORHUT at the piano. A tender, revealing and funny show about what modern Suffolk really means.

Here is a new Suffolk calendar, almanac,
map, scrapbook, songbook and diary.
Dean Parkin has cast his net and come up
with a fine local language-catch!
IAN McMILLAN