Rebecca Smith
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Sandcastle Walls and Sea Glass Windows
At the ends of the green, in long outlines where the country meets the blue, towns sit and wait for temporary people. They wait in sandcastle walls moulded for others, looking out to see through sea glass windows clouded with an air that will never be theirs.
People look in through these sand glass windows when the sun hits the edges. They watch, with tokens in their hands, the golden mile lights bounce from one corner to another. Behind them, the copper disks decorating the wallpapers hang loosely in
piles
of
dust.
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About the author
Rebecca has grown up and lives in a seaside town in the east of England and has always been interested in the realities of life for the town’s residents in comparison to how the town is advertised to the tourists it wishes to attract, which the book reflects in a fictional seaside town. In this, her first poetry collection, this conflict is uniquely explored with unclaimed photography and innovation of the poetic form to place the reader at the centre of Britain’s mythical seaside.
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