The Rime of the Modern Mariner
Author(s): Nick Hayes
A mariner appears on a park bench and begins his tale… Cursed by an albatross he slew whilst hunting whales, the mariner and his crew find themselves stranded within the North Pacific Garbage Patch: a vast, hypoxic, slow-whirling maelstrom of plastic waste; a hidden repository for the world’s litter. Along the way, he meets various characters of our current environmental tragedy: a lady made of oil, a deserted ghost-ship drilling barge, a 2-inch salp (the human race’s oceanic ancestor), a blue whale and a hermit. Nostradamus, Cassandra, Medusa, Poseidon, Thor, Gaia, Al-Javari, Mephistopheles and a buzzard also make cameo appearances.
Product Information
Nick Hayes has published two collections of his short comics, Lovely Grey Day and 11 Folk Songs. He is the founding editor of Meat magazine, a periodical which has been showcasing new writing, comics and illustration for the last six years – and has won two Guardian Media awards.
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Jonathan Cape Ltd
- : 0.908
- : 01 May 2011
- : 242mm X 149mm X 37mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Nick Hayes
- : Hardback
- : Nick Hayes
- : 741.5
- : 336
