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Tideway (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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Tideway (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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List price R305
Loot Price R247
Discovery Miles 2 470
You Save R58 (19%)
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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
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