DERREK HINES is a Canadian who lives in Cornwall with his wife, the English novelist Joanna Hines. His work has received prizes in many competitions and his poetry appears in anthologies, and magazines newspapers and journals here and abroad. He reviews for the TLS.

       In collaboration with Alice Kavounas he wrote Open to the Weather in the Cargo Press series.

His Gilgamesh, a new version of the epic, is to be published by Chatto & Windus (January 2002)

Derrek Hines
Limited Edition  ISBN 1 899980 02 4    paper  8.00  254x160   40 pp  
Images by Robert McNab

A poetry journal of a week spent in Lawrence Durrell's former home in Corfu. Van Norden was the boat Durrell and his wife owned during their time on the island.

       ' Take this, Van Norden's mooring,
        the iron wedding ring that joined sea to garrigue.
         Salt jealousies, wordless divorces of rust,
         have gnawed away the marriage to a stain....' 

        'With the heat of the afternoon,
         day thins to a cicada's note,
         and slips through the eye of siesta.

         On the other side,
         old men sit companionably
         in the tattered shade of a deceptive idleness...'

With elegance and authority, Hines portrays the diurnal grind, honourable yet tragic, like Ulysses adrift under blind stars...'  Paul Newman Abraxas

'A lyrical and satisfying production ... More than a poet of sea and islands, Hines is a poet of the human heart'.   Ian MacNiven Deus Loci