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Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
Jean Sprackland
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Description for Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
Paperback. Describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. This series of meditations was prompted by walking on the wild beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEN; WNCS1; WNW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. This is a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, Strands is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation - about sea-change.
Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. This is a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, Strands is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation - about sea-change.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099532439
SKU
V9780099532439
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Ref
99-74
About Jean Sprackland
Jean Sprackland is the author of four previous poetry collections, including Tilt, which won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. She has also published a book of non-fiction, Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, which won the 2012 Portico Prize. She lives in London.
Reviews for Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
A fine book... Transparent, undeceived prose
Kate Kellaway
Guardian
Compelling ... well-contextualised, sharply-observed, clued up, environmentally aware and deeply researched
Independent
With clarity and candour, in the natural voice of a modern storyteller, she tells what she sees at the intersection of herself and whatever is delivered to her by the ... Read more
Kate Kellaway
Guardian
Compelling ... well-contextualised, sharply-observed, clued up, environmentally aware and deeply researched
Independent
With clarity and candour, in the natural voice of a modern storyteller, she tells what she sees at the intersection of herself and whatever is delivered to her by the ... Read more