Tideway (2nd Edition)

Tideway (2nd Edition)
Jane Draycott, Peter Hay
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Paperback
h210 x 135mm - 64pg
21 Jun 2022 UK
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9781915048011
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A long-awaited re-issue, beautifully redesigned, of Jane Draycott' s ' Tideway' , a mesmeric sequence of poems about London' s working river in a time of transition, with paintings by Peter Hay specifically created for the first edition as companion pieces to the poems. The River Thames can be a dangerous place to work: powerful tides, strong winds, difficult bridges and paralysingly cold water. At the turn of the millennium, Jane Draycott spent several weeks with the London watermen on the city' s tugs, barges, and salvage vessels - a community of highly skilled men and women watching their working landscape and their futures change around them week by week: docklands transformed, slipways built over, warehouses converted to luxury apartments. ' Tideway' brings the poems written during that time together with Hay' s light-filled paintings and the transcribed words of the watermen themselves. "What Draycott manages in two sentences contains a world. It isn' t just the concise audacity of the imagery created here that is persuasive. . . [her] confidence secures the registers and makes a fine, clear lyric. Moreover, she makes significance out of insignificance. Say it out loud; you' ll want to sing it in time. Time' s the theme. " David Morley
"In Tideway, with the Thames and its watermen, Draycott may have found a perfect subject, where the elements of water and air meet and blend, where history is an active presence, and where the trove of objects lost and found invites the contemplation of mysteries which are, satisfyingly, not to be fathomed entirely. All this with her quizzical, exultant, exact music. A mesmeric and thrilling body of work. Tideway deserves a wide readership. " Sean O' Brien
Jane Draycott is a UK-based poet with a particular interest in audio and collaborative work. Her publications include a recently reissued edition of Christina the Astonishing in collaboration with Lesley Saunders, (Two Rivers Press, 1998, reissued 2022), and Storms Under the Skin (2017) translations from the poems of artist-writer Henri Michaux, as well as five collections from Carcanet Press, including The Occupant (2016, Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Over (2009, T S Eliot Prize shortlist) and her prize-winning translation of the 14th-century dream-elegy Pearl. She teaches on postgraduate writing programs at the universities of Oxford and Lancaster and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781915048011
Published: 21 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Two Rivers Press
Publisher: Two Rivers Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 64

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