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      <title>Shoal Music No. 2: Another Side of Jimmy Buffett</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 1982, during a surprise performance with Joan Baez, Bob Dylan sang Jimmy Buffett's "A Pirate Looks at 40." Years later, in a 2009 chat with Bill Flanagan, Dylan praised Buffett as a top…]]></description>
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      <title>The Rich Beauty of Monkey Island</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2023 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Gaming</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Anyone who spent (too much) time in the 90s' point-and-click adventures knows the midnight, soupy allure of the Monkey Island series. Ah, Monkey Island – a nexus of nostalgia, pixelated palm trees,…]]></description>
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      <title>Welcome To The Deck Hand</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Welcome to The Deck Hand a new journal of maritime art. A harbour for sea themed creative work of all kinds including; pelagic poetry, pirate prose, maritime music, aquatic art and a bountiful…]]></description>
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      <title>Spring Cleaning — Tim Gadhorn</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Early morning fresh breeze coming down the hillside the cedar trees holding the sun in their leaves, the sea glimmering brightly the beach bathed in light, quiet except for the clacking of pebbles,…]]></description>
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      <title>The Deck Hand Update: August 2020</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Deckhand hopes you're staying safe in these difficult times... we apologies for the slow positing of late but we're still afloat and welcoming the best in maritime poetry and art...]]></description>
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      <title>En la mar — Heather Wastie</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA['En la mar' by Heather Wastie The original song, En La Mar, was introduced to me by singer friend Alison Sabedoria. Not much is known about it except that it is traditional and appears in collections…]]></description>
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      <title>Windwick Bay — Sarah Jessen</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fulmars dot the grassy cliffs; feathered sentinels, gathering intelligence, compiling reports. Selkies on the rocks below, absorbing rays and fornicating; a cacophony of song; blubber scratched on…]]></description>
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      <title>Wrecker — Belinda Rimmer</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[She tucks a strand of hair into her ribbed hat; the wind has an itch, a liking for blonde. Light from the lantern draws her face to shadow. She's dressed in dark blue for season, quality of sky. Fog…]]></description>
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      <title>3 Poems — Ion Corcos</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[When the Gulls Come No waves on shingle or a stranded fishing boat; only salt mist, a cemetery along the windy road, ice on the cold air, the morning sun just above the trees. This time no pheasants…]]></description>
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      <title>whale spins song for safe spell/ a translation — Sarah Doyle</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[whale spins song for safe spell a translation sing map sing salt sing swell sing tide sing blue sing white sing sky sing wide sing fin sing tail sing mouth sing tongue sing skin sing eye sing throat…]]></description>
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      <title>A Merry Life, And A Short One — Kate Garrett</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Poetry</category>
      <description><![CDATA[for Bartholomew Roberts When the chokehold of sulfur and saltpetre released your men, they found your body cannon- cradled, dead eyes watching the waiting swell below. Moments before you stood,…]]></description>
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      <title>Haiku for Odysseus — Marc Woodward</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Poetry</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Odysseus was strapped to his mast in torment. Butes dived in to swim but Aphrodite rescued him. I cannot hope for such kind mercy. So fill up my ears with the beeswax of TV; dumb me down with tea,…]]></description>
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      <title>Mermaid-in-waiting — Dr Charley Barnes</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[With thanks to Claire The cliff face causes shade here and there, indents in the land for the fair-skinned to hide in. I rest on a smoothed rock and comb my windswept hair, winding tendrils that…]]></description>
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      <title>Lytham — Katerina Neocleous</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[I I carry the estuary - a deadweight of scuttled boats among brackish puddles and sky scudded mudflats, far from tide and skyline. Keel to sky I sway on sea weary legs; a breached hull where the…]]></description>
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      <title>The Snail — Mandy-Suzanne Wong</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Fiction</category>
      <description><![CDATA[You probably don’t get many applicants from Japan. In accordance with your Diversity Statement, I should think you’d welcome some. For talents like mine, Japan is the sensible place to look.…]]></description>
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      <title>Hiraeth for the Hinterland — Lee Prosser</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[I came close to drifting; my clothes, hung out in their dull routine, were lost sailors washed up against the shore— left out in the rain like scrapyard hulks. I was raised upon the rust of the…]]></description>
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      <title>You Ask If We Were Fair To All Those Sailors — Claire Walker</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[I wouldn’t say we lured them, or coaxed them, like seals, to bob tricks against their will, under a half-moon sky. Our fable blew on prevailing winds, swept to coastal ears, fed a harbour-full of…]]></description>
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      <title>Year End Dawn, Kingsbarns Beach, Fife — Jonothan Potter</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[' Year End Dawn, Kingsbarns Beach, Fife ' by Jonothan Potter Jonothan Potter/ Artist/ Yorkshire/ @BJonothan]]></description>
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      <title>A Navy of One (After Samuel Taylor Coleridge) — Marc Woodward</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In between and remote: vapour, sky, sea: the pastel flag of some pelagic nation whose burnished voyagers wander ghostly over deep trenches below dark oceans - chasms reserved for drowned seafarers,…]]></description>
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      <title>Kelp, Kelp, Glorious Kelp — Andy Jackson</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Film</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Watch this marvellous sequence of clips set to music by underwater cameraman and filmmaker Andy Jackson. Andy says he, 'created this on behalf of our kelp forests and all the animals that depend on…]]></description>
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      <title>Shoal Music No. 1: Neil Young’s ‘Midnight On The Bay’</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The first of a regular feature where we reflect on the sea themed songs by a popular artists. Here music critic Tim Gadhorn digs up Neil Young's 1976 song Midnight On The Bay. Neil Young is better…]]></description>
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      <title>Anti-Shanty — Georgia Harvey</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[We all sing the songs of souls lost at sea and preserve in musical amber memories. But what of the land-bound in fishermen’s towns, Now the fish are all dead and the industry’s down? These boatmen…]]></description>
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      <title>Burian</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Word of the Day is Burian . A Gaelic origin word that signifies the sea is coming in, with the noise akin to the roar of a bull.]]></description>
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      <title>The Harbour — Tom Harding</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2019 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Late morning, the sun high above the harbour, all is quiet except for the ferry that docks every hour to collect tourists, and the occasional morning boat tugging slowly to its destination. The sea…]]></description>
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