(...) And he’s taken this further out across the water with his latest, Water is a burned body, drawn partly from an episode in John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes. Climate change is already here- we know this of course, it dreams itself real through our denial- and the struggle for land, for something tenable, is conveyed here with startling economy, with torchlight and brief anchorage, the splash of stairwells and dangerous glances; and always the current, the drift and pull of tidal forces. How things surely will be. (...)

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