VLOED, Lucia Dove

'There is land that was once sea and there is sea that was once land and there are the places that are in waiting.'

VLOED / flood / flood-tide / flow

VLOED is a work of creative nonfiction. Comprising historical analysis, poetry and photography, the book explores the shared cultural memory and landscape between Essex and the Netherlands in relation to the North Sea Flood of 1953. The disaster, which left deep impressions at both local and national levels across the two places, is perceived here through the lenses of heritage, homesickness and decay.

Lucia Dove is a writer from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, living in the Netherlands.