a boat & c

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  1. Colbie

    I’m enjoying your recent crop of Hastings photos – particularly those of the fishing fleet on the beach – having recently moved there from Hackney. In preparation for reading your new novel I re-read Light and Nova Swing. Your descriptions of the port in Nova Swing for some reason really brought to mind these working boats and the day-to-day detritus surrounding them – the sense of timeless decay, crudely repurposed machinery, of colonised waste lands.

  2. Hi Colbie. Wouldn’t mind moving down there myself. Lots of contrasts, a sense of different worlds & times & planes intersecting. Hope you enjoy Empty Space.

  3. MichaelO

    Reminds me of the weedy, polluted channels of Whitestone in the Bronx with the shells and derelicts of fishing boats and small-change pleasure craft shining on the muddy cinder blocks…

  4. this photo reminds me of the construction of your books….seductive, counter-intuitive, and both fluid and abrasive

  5. martm

    Crowley’s last home and, over in Coburg Place, just one of John and Beverley Martyn’s: Nick Drake wrote “Northern Sky” there, if memory serves.

  6. Hi Mia, thanks. Pleased that ES undermined your expectations, too. It felt like quite hard work this time & I’m relieved to have finished those Light books.