SeaSpray17 is a celebration of the sea in words and images. A collaboration between Australian children's author Dannika Patterson and award-winning Australian ocean photographer Kian Bates.
The concept is elegantly simple. Seventeen ocean photographs, each paired with a haiku of seventeen syllables. Waves, light, salt, stillness, weight, motion. The collection represents the sea in all its moods, distilled to its essentials in both literary and photographic visual art mediums.
Running through the collection is a clear current of ocean appreciation and conservation. This is a book that invites you to look closer at the things you love, and to look after them.
SeaSpray17 is a crossover title with wide appeal, recommended for ocean lovers aged 6 to 106.
It works as a gift book for ocean lovers, surfers, divers, beachcombers and coastal families; as a coffee-table book; and as a classroom text for teaching haiku, imagery, syllable counting, poetic form and environmental writing. It's also the reference text Dannika uses in her ocean-themed poetry and writing workshops for schools, libraries and festivals, where students explore word-and-picture pairings alongside the marine science behind the images.
A beautiful choice for Father's Day, Mother's Day, teacher gifts, farewell gifts and anyone whose happiest place is in or near the water.
Themes include the ocean, marine conservation, poetry, haiku, photography, mindfulness and the natural world.
SeaSpray17 is a celebration of the sea in words and images. A collaboration between Australian children's author Dannika Patterson and award-winning Australian ocean photographer Kian Bates.
The concept is elegantly simple. Seventeen ocean photographs, each paired with a haiku of seventeen syllables. Waves, light, salt, stillness, weight, motion. The collection represents the sea in all its moods, distilled to its essentials in both literary and photographic visual art mediums.
Running through the collection is a clear current of ocean appreciation and conservation. This is a book that invites you to look closer at the things you love, and to look after them.
SeaSpray17 is a crossover title with wide appeal, recommended for ocean lovers aged 6 to 106.
It works as a gift book for ocean lovers, surfers, divers, beachcombers and coastal families; as a coffee-table book; and as a classroom text for teaching haiku, imagery, syllable counting, poetic form and environmental writing. It's also the reference text Dannika uses in her ocean-themed poetry and writing workshops for schools, libraries and festivals, where students explore word-and-picture pairings alongside the marine science behind the images.
A beautiful choice for Father's Day, Mother's Day, teacher gifts, farewell gifts and anyone whose happiest place is in or near the water.
Themes include the ocean, marine conservation, poetry, haiku, photography, mindfulness and the natural world.
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