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This time a collaboration between Mark Ward and artist Rebecca Chesney, Ward providing the words and Chesney providing the images. The book is called 'Five Rivers' and refers to the rivers which flow into Morecambe bay. Ward's poems reflect his own childhood memories of holidays in Morecambe; sandcastles, fortune tellers, and penny falls.
Although there are fewer poems than in 'Thunder Alley' I found the collection no less rewarding. The poems jump of the page and speak directly to me, reminding me of my own childhood summer holidays. Indeed the kinds of holidays that Lancastrians enjoyed for over a hundred years before the package holiday sent Lancashire's seaside town into decline (a decline that I am happy to say Morecambe is counteracting).
I am by no means a poetry expert (I actually find it to be quite an inaccessible art form), but I find Ward's poetry to be absolutely fascinating!
14 September 2009 from Peter
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