The poems have been selected and introduced by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and explore the many joys of swimming in pools, rivers and oceans. They travel all the way from a child learning to swim at home on a piano stool to a swimmer in a public baths which become suddenly splendid:

“the pool spread like a sunken ballroom,
marbled with the winter sun and here,
the deep end’s edge
where I hang breathless,”

from ‘What I Think About When I’m Swimming’ by Hannah Lowe

Swimming is a pleasure and a privilege, and these poems remind us that when we take to the water it is not just our bodies that are changed.

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