The Fish Ladder (34 page)

‘A secret well there was’, ‘Every way the woman went’:
Irish Metrical Dindshenchas
, translated by Edward John Gwynn, CELT, University College, Cork, 2004.

Afon Rhiw

‘What is existence’: R. S. Thomas, ‘Mass for Hard Times’ from
Selected Poems
, Penguin Modern Classics, 2003. Reproduced by kind permission of Gwydion Thomas on behalf of the R.S. Thomas Literary Estate.

‘That well is never dry’: Neil M. Gunn,
The Well at the World’s End
, Faber and Faber, London, 1951. Reproduced by kind permission of Dairmid Gunn on behalf of the Neil M. Gunn Literary Estate.

A Note on the Author

Katharine Norbury trained as a film editor with the BBC and has worked extensively in film and television drama. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA programme at UEA and a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths. She lives in London with her family.
The Fish Ladder
is her first book.

@kjnorbury

First published in Great Britain 2015

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