Good, Occasionally Rhyming: A Celebration of The Shipping Forecast in Poetry and Prose Anna Crowe won the Amsterdam Open Book

won the Amsterdam Open Book Prize and was published by Versal Editions in 2020

rise up and sing

—John Kinsella

These poems respond

surviving on angry couplets

Good, Occasionally Rhyming: A Celebration of The Shipping Forecast in Poetry and Prose Anna Crowe won the Amsterdam Open BookA collection of selected poetry and writing about The Shipping Forecast on the 100th anniversary of the first BBC Broadcast. And now, the Shipping Forecast issued by the Met OfficeOften described as a litany, mantra or lullaby, the Shipping Forecast has long been a favourite of cosy homes on chilly evenings. Its practical use as a precise reading of the marine weather around the British Isles has been largely forgotten by its recreational listeners,