Ken Worpole: recent publications


	Recent Publications
Home	Dockers & Detectives Ken’s first book, Dockers & Detectives, has now been re-published by Five Leaves Press at £8.99. This early study of twentieth-century working class reading and writing in Britain helped revive a number of literary reputations, such as those of Alexander Baron and James Hanley, as well as distinguishing distinct regional cultures and narrative styles still existing in Britain. Visit Five Leaves Press to order Dockers & Detectives ‘A very welcome book. It is very good to have this material which Worpole has so patiently collected and analysed.’ Raymond Williams, New Society ‘He succeeds in making the reader want to rush out and read the books he is discussing because he tells a story well, and that in itself is still rare in books about literature.’ Nigel Fountation, City Limits Essay: Time and Tide Ken Worpole and Jason Orton One of Ken’s collaborations with photographer Jason Orton was on Britain’s declining ‘Tidal Pools’. View this essay in the Design Observer View Jason Orton's work	350 Miles: An Essex Journey Ken Worpole, with photographer, Jason Orton Published in September 2005, this handsome fine art production explores the landscape and history of the Essex coast, rivers and estuaries. Copies available from Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/350-Miles-Journey-Jason-Orton ‘The authors have uncovered in words and images a haunted littoral of piers and power plants, mudflats and louring skies…Essex has never looked so mystical.’ The Independent ‘Worpole writes evocatively of the meeting of land and water and the myriad forms it takes with the changing tide. Orton’s photographs are an excellent complement, conveying bleak or luminous expanses of marsh and shoreline and comes closer to capturing the landscape qualities than anything I’ve seen.’ Andrew Mead, The Architect’s Journal ‘This is a book to ruminate over and relish. The subject matter is the much derided coastal landscape of Essex. Yet 350 Miles demonstrates in a subtle and convincing way how much visual, cultural and environmental richness there is to be found there.’ Countryside Voice King Dido by Alexander Baron New edition of Baron's classic East London novel. It contains a new biographical essay about Baron's life and work by Ken Worpole. Buy King Dido at www.inpressbooks.co.uk

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