Tickled by the Turning Tide - Quarrington, Tony
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Tickled by the Turning Tide: The Folkestone Poems is Tony's first collection of poetry. All thirty three verses have been inspired by his adopted home of Folkestone on the south eastern coast of Kent, just twenty two miles from the European mainland. Tony's poems range over key moments in the town's history, from its fishing heritage to its role as a port of embarkation for war, and from its period as a fashionable seaside resort, which welcomed royalty and writers, to its decline and subsequent regeneration as an art and dining destination. He also explores aspects of modern living in a town…mehr

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Tickled by the Turning Tide: The Folkestone Poems is Tony's first collection of poetry. All thirty three verses have been inspired by his adopted home of Folkestone on the south eastern coast of Kent, just twenty two miles from the European mainland. Tony's poems range over key moments in the town's history, from its fishing heritage to its role as a port of embarkation for war, and from its period as a fashionable seaside resort, which welcomed royalty and writers, to its decline and subsequent regeneration as an art and dining destination. He also explores aspects of modern living in a town that is changing rapidly. The poems are in turns celebratory, nostalgic, melancholy and even angry, and are invested with Tony's characteristic wry wit and authority.
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Tony was born in Rochester in Kent 1952. When he was first taken on holiday by his parents to the coastal town of Folkestone, fifty miles away, at the age of ten, little would he have thought that, more than half a century later, he would not only return to the town to live but be publishing a book of poetry inspired by it. Following studies for a BA (Honours) degree in English and European Literature and MA in Anglo-Irish Literature, Tony had a thirty year career in civil service management, retiring in 2009. He has always written, jointly publishing the cricket book, "A Half-Forgotten Triumph: The Story of Kent's County Championship Title of 1913" in commemoration of its centenary. It was nominated for both the Wisden and Sports Book of the Year awards. Since he moved with his wife to Folkestone in 2016, he has not only written and performed his poetry in a variety of locations, notably coffee houses and even on the street, but also created and run a series of literary evenings and conducted popular walking tours of the local area. This is his first collection of poetry.