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PUBLISHER: North House Press
ISBN: 9781918204087
RRP: £15.00
PAGES: 192
PUBLICATION DATE:
September 2, 2026
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A Year in the Water: Swimming, Writing, Living
By Beth McDonough
Organised around the calendar year, this is a beautiful and inspirational companion. Through a unique combination of evocative poetry and informative, often funny prose, A Year in Water celebrates the challenges and joys of all-year-round outdoor swimming. Stunningly illustrated throughout, A Year in Water combines quietly humorous and observant prose, inspirational advice, lucid poetry, as well as enticing and restorative waterside recipes. Beth McDonough takes the reader through all the seasons of the year, and into the UK s wild, and more tamed, waters inspiring the reader with practical hints, tips, and advice along the way. With vivid and visceral poems, the reader is placed knee-deep in rivers, lochs and seas without having to get their feet wet!
Beth McDonough
Beth McDonough is a published poet appearing in several collections as well as her own Lamping for Pickled Fish. She was Writer in Residence at Dundee Contemporary Arts and is a regular contributor to Dundee University Review of the Arts, Imagined Spaces and other places. She lives in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.
Her poetry is strongly connected to place, particularly the Tay where she swims every day if she can.