Little Estuaries

In Little Estuaries, Daniel Kramb goes in search for what’s fleeting between the shores. Amid a constantly shifting sense of what can be seen, sensed, experienced, the poet probes the estuary as sphere: an opening up, a possibility. Whittled down, like sea to stream, his poems emerge, in their own distinct form, estuary-shaped on the page.

Intricate, at times playful, always open, these unassuming, small pieces reach beyond the confines, always returning to what’s undeniable, as body. Silt-smeared and salty, this is poetry not on landscape, but through it: formed not by what exists, but from what’s washed up within.

Daniel Kramb is the author of three novels, Central (2015), From Here (2012), and Dark Times (2010); and a booklet of poetry, Timid Takes (2013). Daniel is a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, and his prose history of the collective is out in their new anthology, Too Young Too Loud Too Different (Corsair, 2021). 

Other writing has appeared in The London Magazine, Prototype, Popshot and elsewhere. He lives where the Thames becomes the sea.