Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
Author(s): 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.
General Information
- :
- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.246
- : 05 June 2013
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Jean Sprackland
- : Paperback
- : 577.699
- : 256
More About The Product
Featured on Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2012. This is the ultimate beachcomber's book from a prize-winning poet and natural storyteller. Think Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin.
Winner of Portico Prize for Literature: Non-fiction 2012.
"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 "If a book can have the appeal of a really good long walk, this one does" Daily Mail
Jean Sprackland's first collection of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers Day, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 1999. Her second collection, Hard Water, was published by Cape in 2003 and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. In 2004 she was named by the Poetry Book Society as one of the 'Next Generation Poets'. Her third collection, Tilt, won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. She lives in London.
