Sonia Overall is a novelist, poet and lecturer based in Kent. The Art of Walking is a collection of responses to movement and place, reflecting the writer's interest in the relationship between walking and creativity, self and setting.
Continental Drift is a book about place, about the attachments and appropriations that shape our relationship with the land. Transcending the border of country and continent, these poems search out ways that language balances the demands of location. This is a poetry of shifting localities and the forces that make them.
Centres specifically on the area of East Kent where Australian poet Laurie Duggan lives. It features excursions and interludes elsewhere in Britain, the Continent and North Africa.
A year after her young son's diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes, Patricia Debney spent six weeks writing in a beach hut on the North Kent coast. From the often bleak, always shifting winds and seas, prose poems of loss and love emerged.
This book tells of the voyage of the Mignonette in 1884, bound from England for Australia. After it foundered in the South Seas, the starving survivors murdered and ate the cabin boy. After being rescued, the survivors were tried in England.
The poems of Walk Song build through a series of sequences which look to animate solidarities and the languages of rights. These are poems of friendship and movement, landscape and politics, action and hope.