Constructing the Quays

Leaf 330 – Art Inspired

 

Norman Garstin - A View of Mount's Bay with the North Pier (c.1920)
Penlee House Gallery & Museum

This poem was inspired by Norman Garstin’s painting of the building of the north quay of Newlyn harbour in Cornwall. As a child, I spent all my summers in Newlyn, and so the harbour was a place I knew well – a haven in so many senses of the word.

 

 

Two arms –

enfolding calm

waters within.

 

 

 

Newlyn, Cornwall (c.1906) National Maritime Museum