English River - a journey down the Thames in poems & photographs Astley Virginia Paperback
English River - a journey down the Thames in poems & photographs Astley Virginia Paperback Virginia Astley has been a much admired songwriter and musician since the 1980s, known for her engaging…
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English River - a journey down the Thames in poems & photographs Astley Virginia Paperback
Virginia Astley has been a much admired songwriter and musician since the 1980s, known for her engaging lyrics as well as for her melodious style. She grew up by the river's upper reaches, knew the old lock-keepers and was familiar with all aspects of the Thames and its hinterland: both the natural world and the people whose lives are intimately connected with the river. Now her other two passions take centre stage in this book: poetry and the River Thames.
Her pamphlet The Curative Harp won Ireland's Fool for Poetry chapbook competition in 2015 and was published by Southword. In recent years, she has returned to the Thames, working for a summer as an assistant lock-keeper, and walking its length to record and respond to its landscapes, river life and river folk as a poet and photographer. The English River is her first book-length poetry collection, showing many new sides to this