Tidings of our Bairnsea is available from the website shop. 

To hear William reading extracts from Tidings of our Bairnsea, including the poem below, click the jukebox button and select number 3 from the menu:

......Again and again

The insistant

Desperate horn

There are boys in the sea

Lovers and brothers

And machines by the black river

Men are somewhere

Behind

Pale-greenworkshop windows

Near

Dark derricks hanging

Over

Blue

Welding

Arc and

Floodlit stern omega sign

Perhaps for Onassis

For Onassis?

A head is hooded

Against blue flicker

And red spit

Hot spark-seeds of Christ

Risen in ships

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