Mark Cocker & Cathy Haynes | Finding Wonder in the Natural World
Sun 22 Nov 2026 | 10:00am - 11:00am
Join two exceptional writers who invite us to slow down and pay attention to the daily wonders of the living world. Mark Cocker’s profound The Nature of Seeing encourages us to reclaim our innate gift for wonder, and Cathy Haynes’ The Fullness of Time is a chance to realign ourselves with the daily rhythms of the natural world. Being attentive to what’s around us is a creative act that can transform both us and the very world we share.
Chaired by Stephen Cherry.
Venue: Old Divinity School
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biographies
Mark Cocker is an author and naturalist whose fourteen books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. Crow Country was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008 and won the New Angle Prize for Literature in 2009. A Claxton Diary won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award in 2019, and his most recent book, One Midsummer’s Day, was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Award 2023.
Cathy Haynes is a curator, writer, artist and educator who has been developing a creative practice on aspects of time for two decades. She has been Timekeeper in Residence at UCL’s Petrie Museum, Artist in Residence at the Chisenhale Gallery, Curator for Art on the Underground at Transport for London and a founder faculty member at Alain de Botton’s School of Life.
