T H E A U T H O R
Sea Swim by John Wedgwood Clarke
Click to enlarge. (Cover photograph by Lara Goodband)
'Your wake complicates mine.'
B U Y T H E B O O K
VP0029 // Published: 16th April 2012
Throughout 2011, Sea Swimmers swam in Scarborough's South Bay as part of imove, the Cultural Olympiad Programme in Yorkshire. They were led bravely into the waves by poet John Wedgwood Clarke, whose eighteen-poem sequence inspired by this experience was collected in book form and published by Valley Press.
The poems explore the fluent, fragile and sometimes agonisingly pleasurable relationship between the swimmer, the land and the sea around Scarborough; how swimming transforms the way we feel ourselves to be in our bodies, and the liberating effects these changes have on the imagination. Sea Swim may be as close as you can get to swimming in the sea without donning a wetsuit.
Paperback page count: 26 / ISBN: 9781908853066
John Wedgwood Clarke trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama and holds a D.Phil. in Modernist poetics from the University of York... (read more)
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L I N K S
Video: John explains the project
Visit the author's homepage to read a poem from Sea Swim.
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Praise for John Wedgwood Clarke and Sea Swim:
"His work is amongst the best to have emerged from new poets in this country over the past two or three years."
— Simon Armitage, on JWC's shortlisting for the 2010 Manchester Poetry Prize
"I am thrilled to be patron of this simple and simply beautiful idea. Poetry is going down to the sea again."
— Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate
