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Writing poems underwater
To start the project off we will be visiting three locations – a shrine, the site of a merman’s capture, and the place where two rivers once got married – and creating poetry and art work based on...
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Wedding Underwear for Mermaids, Linda Ann Strang, Honest Publishing, 2011,...
The sea is rarely itself in Linda Ann Strang’s Wedding Underwear for Mermaids. Though mermaids and the sea do appear in this book, Strang often falls back on the wider metaphoricity of the sea and of...
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‘Estuary’, edited by Harriette Lawler and Agnes Marton, Moon and Mountain...
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’....
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“Jungelize my Days”– Agnes Marton and Midori McCabe
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...
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Six poems – Agnes Marton
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...
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Katie Hale – How to Kill a Mermaid
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,...
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‘Writ in Water’– Polly Atkin
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...
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‘Recessional’– Bernd Sauermann
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...
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Sue Wood –‘Birth’ and ‘Land’s End’
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...
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Sara Eliot – Velvet Skies
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...
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A mermaid anthology…
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...
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Kilburn Comic & Zine Fair – February 15th
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...
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A mermaid anthology…
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...
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‘Estuary’, edited by Harriette Lawler and Agnes Marton, Moon and Mountain...
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’....
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