Little Estuaries
Poetry
Paperback, with original cover art by Louisa Albani | 62 pages | Published by HetMoet-Menard
“Gloriously spare and strange and compendious and tender, like a hymn.”
Sara Baume, author of seven steeples
In Little Estuaries, Daniel Kramb goes in search of what’s fleeting between the shores.
Amid a constantly shifting sense of what can be seen, sensed or experienced, the poet probes the estuary as sphere: an opening up, a possibility.
Whittled down, like sea to stream, his poems emerge, in their own distinct form, estuary-shaped on the page.
Intricate, at times playful, always open, these unassuming, small pieces reach beyond the confines, always returning to what’s undeniable, as the body.
Silt-smeared and salty, this is poetry not on landscape, but through it: formed not by what exists, but from what’s washed up within.
…or from your local bookshop!
Little Estuaries is stocked by these wonderful independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland:
London Review Bookshop, London | Pages of Hackney, London | Brick Lane Books, London | Burley Fisher, London | Books-on-Sea, Southend | Maldon Books, Maldon | The Margate Bookshop, Margate | Bookshop-by-the-Sea, Aberyswyth | The Book Centre, Wexford | O’Mahony’s, Limerick
“What emerges, through and around these gentle and effective poems is a different sense of the estuary, a place of quiet and shifting landscapes, from the experience of walking out, then letting go.”
Rachel Lichtenstein, author of Estuary
Launch #3 | Amsterdam
Treehouse NDSM. September 2023.
Images: HetMoet
“This isn’t writing to make feelings, this is writing as feeling, and glorious with it.”
— Rishi Dastidar, poet
“These poems speak of vistas we realise we need, and now more than ever.”
— Gareth Evans, writer, editor, event and film producer
“Each poem reaches and retreats as natural as breathing and as strong as the tide.”
— Lucia Dove, author of Vloed
“I loved the tender, probing sparseness of this book.”
— Victoria Adukwei Bulley, author of Quiet, on Twitter
“When, in 2021, The London Magazine decides to include some of the first Estuaries in their summer issue, the artist Louisa Albani is at work on a Keats-inspired cover. The idea for a collaboration is born…
As Louisa’s strokes emerge around my poems — like something that was there all along — they guide as much as they follow.
Our confiding, like silent accomplices, in the unknown, the unsayable, allows, for the first time, a hold on something that may be shared. That’s when the idea of a book really begins for me.
You can see the original collaboration in the June/July 2021 issue of The London Magazine, on sale via their website. Louisa’s magical cover art comes accompanied by a series of new Estuaries-inspired artworks, which are available as postcards.
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Launch #2 | Southend
Metal Southend, Chalkwell Hall. June 2023.
Images: Metal
Launch #1 | London
Brick Lane Bookshop. June 2023.
Elte Rauch, publisher at HetMoet-Menard, joined Daniel for the London launch of the book. Watch the full recording here.
Little Estuaries is published by HetMoet-Menard, the new UK imprint of Amsterdam’s HetMoet. Find our more here.
Six Little Estuaries are currently on Metal’s “listening bench,” located just behind Chalkwell Hall (left). Signed copies are in stock at Pages of Hackney (above), Burley Fisher (far left), Brick Lane Books, Book Centre Wexford and O’Mahony’s in Limerick.