Shorelines

We both love bowls of pebbles and baskets of shells and have spent many happy hours pottering on beaches, so our latest collection of poetry was obvious - beaches and beachcombing, shells and pebbles, tides and shorelines ... in fact, everything about being beside the sea.Our previous anthologies are Washing Lines: A collection of poems (about laundry and washing) and Strings of Pearls: A collection of poems (about jewels and jewellery).

• POEMS: Coventry Patmore Magna est Veritas Anon Come walk with me Mary Oliver Breakage Kathleen Raine Shells Shiki Haiku Gillian Clarke Pebble Jenny Joseph Tides W H Auden On This Island Edward Shanks The Rock Pool D H Lawrence Sea-Weed Amy Clampitt Beach Glass Basho Haiku Kevin Crossley-Holland Beachcomber Elizabeth Bishop Sandpiper Edwin John Pratt Sea Gulls Andy Brown As the tide sucks out at daybreak Sheenagh Pugh The Beachcomber David Scott Stones on a Dorset Beach Elizabeth Witts The Talisman Eithne Cavanagh The Walk Jane Griffiths Headland Path Alice Oswald Thrift Philip Larkin To the Sea Anon Sea shell, sea shell Kerry Hardie Five O'Clock Strand Fair Isle Primary School I Found George Mackay Brown Beachcomber Kathleen Jamie The Beach John Betjeman Winter Seascape David Scott St Columba's Bay, Iona Jacky Kay Holy Island Amy Lowell Sea-shell Violet L Cuslidge Song of a Shell Simon Armitage The Stone Beach Colette Bryce North to the South 3 Robert Louis Stevenson At the Seaside Hugo Williams The Sea e e cummings maggie and milly and molly and may Carol Ann Duffy Beachcomber Colette Bryce Pisces Robin Robertson Donegal (for Ellie) Katherine Mansfield The Secret-Poem Edward Shanks The Beach of Shells Elizabeth Witts The Shell John Betjeman A Bay in Anglesey James Reeves Stones by the Sea Katrina Porteous Longshore Drift Aeronwy Thomas Later than Laugharne Dylan Thomas Author's Prologue William Heyen Worming at Short Beach Dorothy Aldis The icnic Bernard O'Donoghue Dun an Oir Edmund Spenser Amoretti LXXV Katrina Porteous Turning the Tide Matthew Francis Shallows Anne Michaels Women on a Beach David Constantine High Tide, early, 19 February 2011 Matthew Francis Sea at Low Tide Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls Robert Frost Neither Out Far or In Deep Sheenagh Pugh Stonelight Margaret Atwood Pebbles Miriam Smith The Sea-Shell John Fuller Shells Seamus Heaney Postscript ILLUSTRATIONS: Atsushi Matsuoka Sound of the Pacific Anne Hayward Seaside Holiday Cassell's Household Guide Volume II Seaside Amusements Anita Klein Collecting Pebblesdrypoint 1997 Diana Bloomfield Boys Fishing on Beach Tom Killion Pt Reyes from McClures Beach Valerie Sims Shoreline Andy English The Fossil Collectors Brian Hanscomb Beeny Cliff copperplate engraving Fay Watson View 1 Belinda Holland Woman Writing on Beach Anne Hayward Driftwood Edward Bawden from East Coasting Anne Hayward September Sails Jessie Willcox Smith At the Sea-side John Keaton Shells Anna Sharratt The Perfect Rock Piotr Naszarkowski Shells Anita Klein Collecting Pebbles oil on board 2004 Mark Rowden Looking for Creatures Anne Hayward Estuary Elizabeth Rashley Beached at Budleigh Sarah Young Rock Pool Anne Hayward The Thinker Claire Dalby Whelk World