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Going by water

The same again, the old bell says — the roofs, the pillowed heads, the dreams, the tides — the same but not the same, this winter morning here. In his beautifully conceived, meticulously assembled new collection, Michael Coady, laureate of the home place, ruminates on and records the traces left by our lives. From the ‘rhapsody of now' through ‘words of love and grief, / the earth's embrace, its constancy' Going by Water celebrates enduring values and the mysterious triumphs of ordinary experience and everyday ritual. It recounts inherited as well as overheard and re-imagined stories. It range.

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