Shifting Sands: Spurn Point.

Spurn Point | Shifting Sands

I don’t know where the last couple of weeks have gone. It’s been an odd February. Normally, the second month of the year is a quiet time and I get to catch up on a lot of the jobs that I’ve been putting off, both work-wise and around the house. Not this year though.

I have had some time to work on my Yorkshire Coast project though. Little bits, here and there. Grabbing an afternoon where possible and weather permitting, to go out and get a few photographs. I’m already several locations behind with the sharing side of things, but that’s ok, the direction is always more important than the speed.

As we head into Spring, it is the first official day tomorrow, I have quite a few locations to photograph & I’m looking forward to not being frozen or blown away while I’m doing it.

I was contacted by someone last week, regarding the photographs that I’d taken as part of the project, around the Humber Estuary. Christopher Fenton is a writer & poet, who used to live in the area and shared a poem that he’d written about the Humber Estuary & Spurn Point, so, I thought that I’d share it after the photographs.

Estuary, by Christopher Fenton.

Leaving Hull

east from the docks

where the fishing fleet, the whalers,

the containers

had all trawled before.

Humber salt

mingled with the mud

washed in from the garden of Yorkshire. I remember

Sunk Island, Hedon and Paull.

In the deep channel

the brave pilots had steered the boats to Spurn,

bound

for Hamburg, Oslo and Bergen.

Behind us

was Larkin’s railway

and to the right, to the south,

a thousand lights

on the gantries of the deep sea terminal.

Water holds

the present renewed,

whilst the past is fixed in the tired land.

We float between the two

eating pasta

from a plastic tub in the small hot cabin, waiting,

in suspension under the car deck.

You can find more of Christopher’s work on his Instagram page

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