Littoral by Nicholas Murray Sherko Bekas its bizarre and surreal absurdness

its bizarre and surreal absurdness

yet tender scrutiny

I hope these poems form a small link in this chain

its wider causes and consequences

a text as wild as the wind

Littoral by Nicholas Murray Sherko Bekas its bizarre and surreal absurdnessThe 'bleak and blasty' sands of Crosby Beach provide the stage for a cast of mysterious and sometimes sinister figures: scavengers and shrimpers, raucous boys, a lonely priest and a disillusioned soldier, with the steely waters of the Mersey, passing ships, and the play of sunlight on distant hills an ever restless backdrop. In these vivid dramas Nicholas Murray reveals to us the bitter sweetness of departure and return to a place known with the