Tideway Alan Bilton

Tideway Alan BiltonA long awaited re issue, beautifully redesigned, of Jane Draycotts Tideway, a mesmeric sequence of poems about Londons 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

and was transfixed by the miracle of sustained rhyming translation

Among the featured poets are: Bertolt Brecht

‘The P45’ and ‘The Crash’ kick-start edgy narratives

our stunned tourists encounter a suicidal horse and discover that a person can also be a robot

She feels estranged from her own body

In others they bear witness to an event must decide whether to become involved or pass by

and though the results may be dark on one level

Lawrence Norfolk

As a young man of twenty

"Kalu packs plot and compulsive characters with story lines that grip" - The Voice (on Yard Dogs)

A familiar theme

thoroughly researched