A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, Strands is about what is lost and buried then discovered. It’s about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, flotsam and jetsam, mutability and transformation – and sea-change.  Jean Sprackland, a prize-winning poet and natural storyteller, guides us through the process of observation and discovery: study, transformation, and understanding.