I have had a vague idea about making book about a place called Firestone Bay for a few years, with initial inspiration coming from Gretchen Peters' song 'Everything Falls Away'.
There is a bay in Plymouth called Firestone Bay. It has a small shingle beach and a concrete, man-made tidal pool, with beautiful views of Plymouth Sound, Mount Edgcumbe and Drake's Island. It's often a quiet beach and is very popular with sea bathers.
The Firestone Bay area has a system of coastal defences dating from the Tudor era. The name Firestone may refer to the type of stone used to build early fortifications or it may be linked to beacons lit in times of danger.
I spent a short while at the beach and wrote a small piece of prose. Later, I split the prose into two, using every other line, to create two separate verses.
Using my usual method of extracting text, I compiled three more verses from newspaper articles about drowning incidents on beaches in the UK.
Adding to the sombre mood, I created hand printed covers I made using an inked plate and clingfilm. This method created interesting marks, evoking disquieted seas.
'Firestone Bay' is an edition of six A6 books.
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