Sewer Lock, by Peter Thickett
We are very proud to share the first publication of our new series of Hydra Book Club Editions, Sewer Lock, by Peter Thickett.
Oluwaseun Olayiwola, author of Strange Beach, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025, describes Peter’s narrative collection of poems perfectly:
“Sewer Lock, much like the Language poets, does the high-wire act of being extravagantly composed while still revering lyric traditions in its frequent moments of quietude. As with the best poems, the interest here is not only sustained by image or idiosyncrasy (both of which are pleasurably manifest) but by intellect: “We make / quite the pair. He’s got the looks. / I’ve got the intellect.” The flip side of the intellect is the witchy superstition of the collection, betrayed here in the gunk of landscape and living, which, to no surprise, is the gunk of language: haemorrhages, haemoglobin, gobs, and gutterslugs. With Sewer Lock, Thickett has birthed a collection ecologically and erotically singular.”
We met Peter, a London and Athens based poet, here on Hydra. He was on an Arts Council grant writing the origin of what would become Sewer Lock. Friendship remains an anchor for the writers living and working here today, just as it was for those who first came nearly 100 years ago. It is a great pleasure to publish Peter’s work as the first in this new series which enters the continuum of both friendship and the literary excellence of Hydra.
Artworks by Grzegorz Polański enter the text as punctuation, creating visual space to further express Peter’s poetic intention. The book’s design by Anna Piwowar/Siostry Piwowar also reflects Peter’s text with an arresting, acidic cover and contrasting sleeve. Hydra Book Club Editions is the result of our deepening commitment to supporting and preserving the literary culture of the Island.
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Sewer Lock A collection of poems by Peter Thickett
Illustrations by Grzegorz Polański
Design by Anna Piwowar/ Siostry Piwowar
Published by Hydra Book Club/77 Press, September 2025
Hardcover in sleeve, 112 pages,
105 x 180 mm
ISBN 978-83-966319-3-0
Retail price, 35€
We are very proud to share the first publication of our new series of Hydra Book Club Editions, Sewer Lock, by Peter Thickett.
Oluwaseun Olayiwola, author of Strange Beach, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025, describes Peter’s narrative collection of poems perfectly:
“Sewer Lock, much like the Language poets, does the high-wire act of being extravagantly composed while still revering lyric traditions in its frequent moments of quietude. As with the best poems, the interest here is not only sustained by image or idiosyncrasy (both of which are pleasurably manifest) but by intellect: “We make / quite the pair. He’s got the looks. / I’ve got the intellect.” The flip side of the intellect is the witchy superstition of the collection, betrayed here in the gunk of landscape and living, which, to no surprise, is the gunk of language: haemorrhages, haemoglobin, gobs, and gutterslugs. With Sewer Lock, Thickett has birthed a collection ecologically and erotically singular.”
We met Peter, a London and Athens based poet, here on Hydra. He was on an Arts Council grant writing the origin of what would become Sewer Lock. Friendship remains an anchor for the writers living and working here today, just as it was for those who first came nearly 100 years ago. It is a great pleasure to publish Peter’s work as the first in this new series which enters the continuum of both friendship and the literary excellence of Hydra.
Artworks by Grzegorz Polański enter the text as punctuation, creating visual space to further express Peter’s poetic intention. The book’s design by Anna Piwowar/Siostry Piwowar also reflects Peter’s text with an arresting, acidic cover and contrasting sleeve. Hydra Book Club Editions is the result of our deepening commitment to supporting and preserving the literary culture of the Island.
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Sewer Lock A collection of poems by Peter Thickett
Illustrations by Grzegorz Polański
Design by Anna Piwowar/ Siostry Piwowar
Published by Hydra Book Club/77 Press, September 2025
Hardcover in sleeve, 112 pages,
105 x 180 mm
ISBN 978-83-966319-3-0
Retail price, 35€