Here is the brazen ripoff of Dylan Thomas, available at Barnes and Noble:
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/holiday-memory-joanne-benford/1110621674?ean=2940033163700#product-commentaries-1
Read it and gawp, because this is classic (and famous) Thomas:
I remember the smell of sea and seaweed, wet flesh, wet hair, wet bathing suits, the warm smell as of a rabbit home field after rain, the smell of pop and splashed sunshades and toffee, the stable and straw smell of hot, tossed, tumbled, dug and trodden sand, the swill and gaslamp smell of Saturday night, though the sun shone strong, from the bellying beer tents, the smell of the vinegar on shelled cockles, winkle smell, shrimp smell, the dripping oily backstreet winter smell of chips in newspaper. The smell of ships from the sun dazed docks round the corner of the sand hills, the smell of the known and paddled in sea moving, full of herrings and the drowned, out and away and beyond and further still towards the antipodes where they hung their koala bears, and strange places where people go mad, but are never talked about.
A beautiful short story, taken from the first of Joanne Benford?s ?Ring of Elements? series, ?Down By The Water?.
This is the first in a series of four books, together comprising the ?Ring of Elements? set, and is composed of lyrical stories, poems and artwork, linked by the sea, the river and those that inhabit them.
Praise for ?Down By The Water?.
?A fantastic read, crammed full of beautiful language, similar to Dylan Thomas, perhaps, or GM Hopkins. Also beautiful illustrations by the author herself.? amazon.co.uk
?An avant-garde novel, comprising story chapters interspersed with some poems. These poems form the inner monologues of the main characters, including the heroine, drowned by her lover, and haunting his descendants.? amazon.co.uk
ISBN 1 900701 111 / 978 1 900701 112
Joanne Benford is a popular UK author of fiction, poetry and non-fiction.
She started writing professionally aged 20, and now regularly writes for several magazines, including The Idler, Towards 2012, Cracked Mirror, Diva, Talking Stick and The Edge. Joanne also regularly writes features and articles for magazines such as Woman?s Own, People?s Friend and Best, where her short stories can also be found. Her first book, Down By The Water, was shortlisted for the Raymond Williams Publishing Prize.
She graduated from Lancaster University with a BA Hons and Masters degree in Literary Studies and completed her PhD thesis at Sunderland University. Areas of research concentrate mainly on feminism, media and popular culture and include articles on many films, television programmes and cultural theories. She is currently completing her seventh novel, and is Creative Writing lecturer for the Open University.
PUBLICATIONS
Non-Fiction
Sing of the City Electric
ISBN 978 1 900701 167
Through The Screen Wildly: The Aesthetic of the Sublime Wilderness - Towards a Postmodern Wildzone
ISBN 978- 1-900701-20-4
Living Doll:The Seduction of the Cyborg
ISBN 978-1-9007-0121-1
Postmodern Aesthetics and Poetics
ISBN 978-1-900701-23-5
Postmodern Feminist Fantasy
ISBN 978-1-900701-22-8
The Organised Writer?s Yearbook
ISBN 978 1 900701 242
A Little Book of Focus
ISBN 978 1 900701 25 9
Powerful Ways to Sharpen Your Memory
ISBN 978 1 900701 26 6
Poetry
The Music of the Spheres
ISBN 1 900701 09X / 978 1 900701 099
Loving One
ISBN 1 900701 154 / 978 1 900701 150
Fiction
Café Ultima
ISBN 1 900701 170 / 978 1 900701 174
Silence and Tears
ISBN 1 900701 197 / 978 1 900701 198
The Ring of Elements Set
Down By The Water
ISBN 1 900701 111 / 978 1 900701 112
Coming Up For Air
ISBN 1 900701 12X / 978 1 900701 129
Fanning the Flames
ISBN 1 900701 138 / 978 1 900701 136
Scorched Earth
ISBN 1 900701 146 / 978 1 900701 143
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Product Details
BN ID: 2940033163700
Publisher: Joanne Benford, via Smashwords
Publication date: 3/19/2012
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Format: eBook
File size: 929 KB