The Shipwrecked House Jackie Kay surveying their circumstances on one

surveying their circumstances on one particular day

editor and teacher

"A Welsh writer of European stature

down on his luck

The Shipwrecked House Jackie Kay surveying their circumstances on oneReader's nomination for Guardian First Book Award 2013 Anchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abound in this first collection by young Anglo Breton poet Claire Trvien. Trviens is a surreal vision, steeped in myth and music, in which everything is alive and like the sea itself constantly shifting form. Fishermen become owls; a woman turns into a snake, while another gives birth to a tree; a glow worm might become a wasp or a toy on standby. Struck