The Solitary Landscape

Edward Storey (born 28th February 1930) is an English writer.[1] He was born at Whittlesey, which was then part of the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire, and the Fens have inspired some of his work.[1] Before becoming a full-time writer in the late 1960s, he worked in adult education for the Peterborough City Education Authority. His first volume of poetry (North Bank Night) was published in 1969.[1] In Fen Boy First (1994) he accounts his childhood growing up in Whittlesey, and in Fen Country Christmas (1995) he collects a number of stories, legends and fenland superstitions.[1] In one of his earlier works Portrait of the Fen Country (1971) he reflects upon his childhood understanding of the world as it was shaped by his fenland experience.