A Brief Letter to the Sea About a Couple of Things Launch with Ali Whitelock

Dear reader, fasten your safety belt and place your tray in the upright position––this is an outrageous ride on the poetry bus that takes corners on two wheels and leaves tread marks seared into the pavement of your heart. In these days of wild struggle and uncertainty, Ali Whitelock’s bold, beautiful, tender, devastating (and weirdly), hilarious poems speak to us all. These poems howl and they ache, they hoot and they pine, they curl up with the sea urchins, sing to the starfish, waltz with the seahorses, they sleep with the moon.

‘Ali Whitelock’s poetry combines the ordinary and extraordinary, the amusing and the wounding, sometimes in a single line. It’s laugh-and-cry material, curving on a thought or image you didn’t see coming. She’s talking to you.’ Mark Mordue, Boy on Fire – The Young Nick Cave

‘While most poets write like they’re alive not to die, Ali Whitelock pleads…