Poem

On Sailing The Gannets’ Way

Wavedancing

Wavedancing tells the story of some islanders and seafarers who inhabit or come upon, but loose, an idyllic island utopia. Their loss refers to the lack so widely felt today of a satisfactory context and sense of meaning for life, of relationship with nature and God, and between men and women and even the different sides of our brains.

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  The story is worked through in differing contexts, from its imaginary primal location in Pulawayo, to a fishing community in Ireland that is ravaged by the impact of modern technology, to a Breton island struggling to survive nuclear disaster, and to another instance of contemporary degradation in the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela. Though the hero and much else are lost, we find our way to another imaginary island and another new start there, in the vicinity of the Spanish Virgin Islands.

Wavedancing launch - 19 April 2006

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Please also send your comments. The first one to come in is from Dom Raphael Appleby OSB, of Downside Abbey, Somerset, England:-

‘Once started, I simply couldn’t put it down..... the book is so full of wisdom and experience and common sense and at its heart a real understanding of Catholicism.  The sailing passages, too, are beautifully written and you feel you are humming along with the boat....’

email: joe(at)gannetsway.com