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Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast

In 2016 Tom Bolton set out on a mission to walk the long, winding coastline of Essex — from Purfleet on the Thames Estuary to the Suffolk border.

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The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus.

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Kate Davis writes magical realist poems born of the hills, marshes and coastal edgelands of south Cumbria.

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