Maritime

His poetry is distinguished by its precision. There is no surfeit to it. His poems are short and taut as well-set sails. Robert Macfarlane. After the success of his first novel, the much-lauded A Book of Death & Fish, Ian Stephen returns to poetry and his passion for all things marine with a collection that evokes the dramatic waterscapes, rocky shores and wind-blasted textures of his native Hebrides. A natural-born son of the sea, Ian writes with an intensity, spareness and precision that echoes the turmoil, the beauty the essential character of the northern seas and their liminal coastlines. See more