Maritime

by Ian Stephen

After the success of his first novel, the much-lauded A Book of Death & Fish, Ian Stephen returns to poetry and his passion for all things marine with a collection that evokes the dramatic waterscapes, rocky shores, and wind-blasted textures of his native Hebrides. A natural-born son of the sea, Ian writes with an intensity, spareness, and precision that echoes the turmoil, the beauty—the essential character—of the northern seas and their liminal coastlines.

Genres: Poetry

160 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2016

About the author

Ian Stephen is a writer, storyteller, artist and sailor from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He studied English, Drama and Education at the University of Aberdeen. His prose, poetry and drama has been published around the world and garnered several awards, including the Robert Louis Stevenson Award. He was the first artist-in-residence at StAnza, Scotland’s annual poetry festival. He is the author of Living at the Edge (1982), a book of short stories, and Malin, Hebrides, Minches (1983), a collection of poems.

Reviews

[Mandy Haggith · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fascinating book of sea poems. Unique.