“Jungelize my Days”– Agnes Marton and Midori McCabe

July 23, 2013, 2:00 am

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Agnes Marton is one of the poets who contributed to the anthology. Here, she describes her collaboration with the artist Midori McCabe  (whose recent projects include the wonderful book Estuary). With the kind permission of Midori McCabe, below are six of her paintings, capturing the flows and reflections of water. Unga is inspired by the Navigli Canal […]

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Six poems – Agnes Marton

July 23, 2013, 5:13 pm

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Agnes Marton has contributed a wonderful poem to the anthology, which is currently available to pre-order. In addition, she has allowed us to show you some more of her poetry, along with accompanying art works by Midori McCabe and Malgorzata Lazarek. Agnes Marton: poetry Agnes Marton is a Hungarian-born poet, editor, linguist. She also takes part […]

Katie Hale – How to Kill a Mermaid

July 31, 2013, 2:00 am

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How to Kill a Mermaid To split her tail, you take her fins and pull. (There is no blood, but the smell of rotting fish, and saltwater stinging in the wound.)  Put her on the land and make her dance, shedding scales and stumbling, undressing her skin: raw and pink and shining like a burn. […]

‘Writ in Water’– Polly Atkin

August 19, 2013, 2:00 am

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Polly Atkin’s poem ‘Lake Fever’ appears for the first time in Lines Underwater - an anthology of new art work and writing re-envisioning mermaids in the twenty first century. Here, you can read four more water-themed poems by Polly, as well as her great piece ‘Writ on Water’ in which she explains how water inspires her poetry. […]

‘Recessional’– Bernd Sauermann

August 27, 2013, 1:50 pm

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Bernd Sauermann has contributed an excellent poem, ‘The Give and Take’, to Lines Underwater. Here, you can read another of his poems, ‘Recessional’. He explains, “My writing process is, for the most part, mysterious to me. My poems often begin with random lines presenting themselves to me. If a given line catches my attention, I […]

Sue Wood –‘Birth’ and ‘Land’s End’

August 30, 2013, 2:00 am

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Charlotte Lindsay: ‘How Babies were Born’ http://mamsie.org/visual-library/visual-library-charlotte-lindsay/   Sue Wood’s two poems ‘Becoming Sand’ and ‘Postcard: Salt Marsh with Cows’ appear in our anthology Lines Underwater. We loved the gorgeous imagery in these poems, and the sense of a visceral yearning for the absent sea in ‘Postcard’.  You can read these two poems by picking up […]

Sara Eliot – Velvet Skies

September 4, 2013, 11:02 am

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Sara Eliot’s song Velvet Skies, feat. Mark Hutin on piano and Ian Peaple on trombone, appears alongside an amazing linocut by Ieuan Edwards in Lines Underwater. Have a listen:     Sara Eliot is a London based poet & singer/songwriter. Her unique sound – soulful vocals with a raspy edge – harmony and a touch of Jazz – delivers […]

Kilburn Comic & Zine Fair – February 15th

January 22, 2014, 9:11 am

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If you are in London this February, you might like to come down to Kilburn Comic & Zine Fair hosted by OOMK Zine on the 15th, https://www.facebook.com/events/657152920997461/ It’s free to enter and is going to feature lots of fantastic things from people like Extra Bones, Dead Trees & Dye, and Melon Shrub. We are going to […]

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A mermaid anthology…

February 15, 2014, 1:18 pm

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LINES UNDERWATER is a mermaid anthology exploring mermaid myths in the modern world and creating new ones. Featuring artworks, writing and audio from over 40 contributors, here are tales of botched cosmetic surgery, 1950s glamour girls, mermaid chairs and singing sirens, postcards from Jenny Hanivers and memories of love affairs in the navy. Edited by […]

‘Estuary’, edited by Harriette Lawler and Agnes Marton, Moon and Mountain 2012, $59.95 hardcover, $44.99 softcover

April 26, 2013, 7:08 am

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  please click on the images in the gallery above to enlarge Just as an estuary is the interface between land and water, ‘Estuary’ is built around the metaphor of  ‘a confluence of art and poetry’.  Each page pairs a poem and an art work, in a fabulous moment of symbiosis, fluid interchange, and synchronicity, […]