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love new brighton - © Janine Pinion |
Over the water
On this side wading birds line up
evenly
spaced: the usual suspects.
Over the water, new towers rise
with
metal fists to summon clouds
On
this side, promenade centurions
patrol
their battlements of water.
Over
the water your turbines spin the wind
and
windows twinkle like diamonds.
On
this side we wave like abandoned aunties
you
will not visit, who boast of your success.
Over
the water all your new splendor
is
a kind of puppetry suspended by cranes.
When
I’m there I look back again to this side
when
I’m here I look across to you
seagulls
polka dot the sky over the water
and
I’m lost, like them somewhere between the two
© Clare Kirwan
From ‘Sculpted’ anthology of North West Poets to be launched in April
Details of painting used to illustrate Clare's poem
7: Artist: Janine Pinion
Title: Wet sands at New Brighton
Medium: Watercolour
Title: Wet sands at New Brighton
Medium: Watercolour
Janine Pinion
I’ve always lived by the sea, originally in Belfast and now in New Brighton. The tides rise and fall, changes in the coastal landscape happen slowly or overnight. I like the patterns left in the sands and the way light falls on them – bits of sky reflected in rivulets. I usually work in oils but over the past couple of years I’ve been photographing and painting the Wirral coast in watercolours. It presents so many aspects, from salt marsh to industrial docklands. I like the link to Ireland too.
I’ve always lived by the sea, originally in Belfast and now in New Brighton. The tides rise and fall, changes in the coastal landscape happen slowly or overnight. I like the patterns left in the sands and the way light falls on them – bits of sky reflected in rivulets. I usually work in oils but over the past couple of years I’ve been photographing and painting the Wirral coast in watercolours. It presents so many aspects, from salt marsh to industrial docklands. I like the link to Ireland too.
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