This book explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. Composed of sequences – love letters, elegies, narratives and odes – it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others’ lives and voices, remaking form and craft. Felicity Plunkett’s remarkable poems balance wrack and loss with vitality, resilience and beauty.

“I run as fast as ink but we are both dissolving: / when I reach you, we become a corner of the sea.”

Felicity Plunkett “A Kinder Sea”. Published by University of Queensland Press in 2020. Donated to the library by Felicity Plunkett and sent to Latvia from Australia ❤️ Together with a beautiful postcard.

Photos by Anna Iltnere / Sea Library