STANZA - Off The Coastal Path [hc]: Dark Poems of the Seaside - Hardcover

Various - Edited By Jo Fletcher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848630824 ISBN 13: 9781848630826

Publisher: PS Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Come - take my hand, and wander with me off the coastal path and into that strange hinterland between earth and water, where life and death walk together, and where the rolling sound of the sea is a siren's luring voice, a wild, clear call that echoes in the blood and cannot be ignored . . . The seaside is a unique place, a magical no man's land caught between the ever-changing waves and the stolid earth, and just as diverse. Off-key music heralds tawdry end-of-pier shows and run-down fairgrounds, with their dilapidated ghost trains and fluorescent candy floss. Pathetic holidaymakers brave the vile weather, too scared to brave the vile landladies, who run their faded-wallpaper-and-cabbage-scented B&B domains with rules set in stone. As you pick your way over pebbles, or sunbathe in the sand, perhaps you'll see pirates, breasting the waves, or monsters, lurking beneath, or hear mermaids, beckoning you closer with a song, or the bells of lost Atlantis, in the deeps below. Or perhaps you may come upon the lonely, the bereft, the hopeless, walking forever beside the sea, oblivious to all now but the pull of the tide . . . This unique, evocative collection gathers thirty poets from across seven centuries, to explore the shadowlands beside the restless waters off and the coastal path.

Edition details

• Publisher: PS Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848630824
• ISBN 13: 9781848630826
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Ben Baldwin
• Number of pages: 69