Performers

Beth Frieden
Stefana Margarint
Seonaid Stevenson
Carla Woodburn
Jane Aldous

How do tides affect our lives? How has that changed through history?

Making a living on or by the sea – fishermen and pirates, wreckers and dockers – making a new life across the sea – escaping pograms and wars, and the endlessly travelling – to paddlers and wild swimmers.

Poems

Arrival by Valerie Bence
Casting A Daughter Adrift by Emma Lee
Church Mary Sounds the Sea by Jenny Mitchell
Clearance by Christine Ritchie
Crossing the Black Water by Reshma Ruia
False Light by John Richardson
First Light by Laura Potts
Fisherman’s Daughter by Claire Booker
Half A Dozen Oranges by Mandy Macdonald
How Women Came to Tristan Da Cunha by Claire Booker
Modality by Julie Laing (film)
Points of Interest by Olivia Dawson
Sea Lessons by Ness Owen
The Arctic Diaries Bird Wife by Melissa Davies
The Arctic Diaries Halibut by Melissa Davies
The Watchers by Elizabeth Parker
We dig the pig by Angel Warwick

Stories
The Fisherman’s Wife by Linda McMullen
Listen, Noah’s Wife by Roppotucha Greenberg

Supported using public funding from Arts Council England

and private funding from 50 crowdfunders, and Arachne Press.