What do you when you witness your erstwhile girlfriend being pushed over the cliff at Whitby Abbey? Go to the police? Well… perhaps there are it was a policeman doing the pushing; and my being there might easily be construed as complicity or even guilt; and more to the point, I knew the policeman. Well! I had known Bartholomew Fair since childhood, he was almost family.I was studying geology at Hull, I knew this coast like the back of my hand, or thought I did. This one event had me re-evaluating not just at the rocks on the North Yorkshire shore but the layers of relationships with my friends, landlady, tutor, Carrie, my girlfriend, the now dead Drew, my parents; and what did this have to do with events during the last war?
Clint Wastling Knihy


Clint's poetry uses geology, landscape and family history to weave together an emotional response to the places he knows and loves in the East Riding and North Yorkshire. Walking the coastline is a cathartic experience. Here you'll explore beautiful paces with hidden histories and legends, find wrecks on the beach or catch a glimpse of student life as a geologist. Published for the first time are sequences of poems about the River Hull and four generations responding to the lockdowns we endured. Clint is passionate about the environment and improving our access to the countryside; these themes reoccur throughout the collection.