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Strands Jean Sprackland

Strands By Jean Sprackland

Strands by Jean Sprackland


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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.

Strands Summary

Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland

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 Reviews

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 tide * The Times *
Sprackland has a wonderfully curious eye * Financial Times *
Simply gorgeous ... One of the finest piece of writing, nature or otherwise, to emerge this year * Big Issue *

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.

Additional information

GOR004666590
9780099532439
0099532433
Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2013-06-06
256
Winner of Portico Prize for Literature: Non-fiction 2012
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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