Blue Days (The Sailor's Return) £10.00
By Alan Jenkins
The two salty, interlocking sequences of poems in Blue Days (The Sailor’s Return) slide in and out of each other as teasingly and ungraspably as their speaker slides in and out of love – and sex – with a woman or series of women variously recalled as mermaids, dutiful daughters and heiresses to shipping fortunes. Unable to resist the siren call of memory, the sensual pull of the tide, this ancient mariner has lingered in the chambers of the sea too long, and recalls the landfalls of his life with haunting directness. The text is accompanied by four stunningly evocative images by William Pownall.
A limited edition of 150 copies each signed by the author.
ISBN 978 1870003 70 4 / 265mm x 182mm / 24pp
