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German TIGER in paperback out next week! So beautiful. This iconic cover! So excited to see this. ❤️❤️🥳🐯

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There’s ALWAYS something to do in London. Things you don’t know you want to do until you come across them on a wet Saturday in Greenwich. Sadly I’m too big, otherwise this would have been a video of me on the zebra wheeeeling round the Cutty Sark.

On an ocean sailing trip, writing up the log book after each watch creates a vital record of the voyage. On our trip from Plymouth to Lisbon my watch mate Søren Oster had this job after our watches, noting our position and course, barometer reading, wind direction and speed. I contributed a bit of fluency to the notes section, not that it was really needed… The log book is like the boat’s “black box” and is referred to whenever a true record of a passage is needed. The skipper told us that the log is so important that it is better to leave it blank if for some reason you forget, rather than make stuff up. Poetic expression, excess words and smiley faces also are not helpful…. ☺️

On National Poetry Day I recommend this astonishing collection Averno from Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Spare, yet rich; desolating yet consoling; simply formed and yet absolutely new…. Glück is one of those poets, like Selima Hill and Anne Carson, who make you glad to have walked the earth at the same time as they did.

The unglamorous business of night watches on board a sailing boat crossing the Bay of Biscay. I always wondered how boats stopped for the night in open sea. Er… turns out they don’t! 3hrs on 6 off 24 hours a day. On a transatlantic crossing this can go on for 20 days, which I think might have rendered me even more of a liability on board than I was already!

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Polly Clark was born in Toronto and lives in Helensburgh on Scotland’s west coast, close to where W.H. Auden wrote The Orators. She is Literature Programme Producer for Cove Park, Scotland’s International Artist Residency Centre, and the author of three poetry collections. Helensburgh, Scotland UK 13/01/2017 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY See details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution. sgealbadh, A22DEX

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