Part of an international festival on one day in seven port towns in four countries.

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.

Hastings Fisherman’s Museum

Link to recordings of the event

Poetry
Arrival by Valerie Bence
Casting a Daughter Adrift by Emma Lee
Crossing the Black Water by Reshma Ruia
Fisherman’s Daughter by Claire Booker
Points of Interest by Olivia Dawson
Verticals by Kate Foley

Stories
Diaspora by Neil Lawrence
Herr Dressler by Eoghan Hughes
The Fisherman’s Wife by Linda McMullen
The Professor’s daughter by Barbara Renel
The Answer, My Friend… by Paul Foy
The Surgeon’s Mate by Maria Kyle
Turquoise by Sheila Lockhart

Performers
Rebekah Wilkinson
Kate Dyson
Umi Sinha
Jared Stoughton
Patrick Kealey

Supported using public funding from Arts Council England

and private funding from 50 crowdfunders, and Arachne Press.