Swimming the Seasons
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A01=Polly Atkin
Author_Polly Atkin
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chronic illness
disability
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forthcoming
freshwater swimming
lake district
lakes
nature
nature writing
outdoors
Swimming
swimming outdoors
water
wellbeing
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- ISBN 9781916812383
- Dimensions: 111 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2026
- Publisher: Saraband / Contraband
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The transformative power of year-round freshwater swimming. Poet and nature writer Polly Atkin invites us to take a dip in the rivers, tarns, and lakes where she swims year-round, finding inspiration and freedom every day. In this intimate, beautiful book, she shares her engagement with the crystal cold water and how this reconnects her body and mind with the natural world. Through luminous, attentive prose, Atkin captures the impact of immersion and the allure of the Lakeland landscapes that surround her. Drawing on her experience of disability, she shows how swimming can open up space for ease, relief and sometimes joy. Whether bracing herself for icy streams or floating on a summer evening, Atkin s reflections remind us to slow down, breathe, and enjoy being fully present. This is a book about resilience, mindfulness and the transformative embrace of wild water.
Polly Atkin is a multi-award-winning writer, essayist and poet based in Grasmere, Cumbria, where she has researched the life and work of Dorothy Wordsworth; she is the author of Recovering Dorothy (2021). Her memoir, Some of Us Just Fall (Sceptre, 2023) won Book of the Year at the Lakeland Book Awards 2024. Her first poetry collection, Basic Nest Architecture (Seren: 2017), won a Northern Writer s Award. Her second pamphlet, Shadow Dispatches (Seren, 2013), won the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize, 2012.
