Description
No Far Shore is a rich exploration of various coastlines across England, Wales, Ireland, Canada and the US, in the form of travel writing, narrative non-fiction, memoir and poetry. In it poet Anne-Marie Fyfe visits the meeting place of land and sea, and takes in the maps, waves, lighthouses, islands, north, maps, journeys, boats and fishermen which mark this changing boundary.
She looks too at the work of a number of writers for whom the coast has been influential (and who in some cases have a surprising link to her hometown of Cushenden in Northern Ireland). They include Elizabeth Bishop, Herman Melville, Eavan Boland, Moira O’Neill, Robinson Jeffers, George Mackay Brown, C.P. Cavafy and Louis MacNeice. In addition, Fyfe also travels into her past, and that of her family, and charting her own relationship with a number of coasts and the way that they have shaped her life and those of others.
Living next to the sea brings almost as many subjects as the waves falling on to the land, from the quiet ease of fishing to the impact of the shipwreck of the Princess Victoria, from the lyricism of nature poetry to the specialism of morse code and cartography.
River Lane 
The Lover's Pinch 
The 'White City' 
Signs Like This 
A Colomber in the House of Poesy 
Poems 
Isn't Forever 
Over the Moon 
The Moon Before Morning 
Bridge 116 
A Children's Treasury of Milligan 
The Sea Migrations 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Ten Poems for Summer 
Milk and Honey 
Insistence 
Jinx 
Selected Poems 
The Shepherd War Poet 
Negative Space 
Fauverie