Books by John Elinger

A celebration of the sea in poetry and painting

The poems range across a number of topics related to marriage: parenthood, family, friendship, intimacy, divorce and bereavement, and refer from time to time to marriages in literature, operas, and the Old Testament

In words and images That Strange Necessity offers visions of Portmeirion, a place created in the twentieth century by a visionary architect, but which now seems timeless in its beauty, endlessly fascinating, and inspiring to all who visit it.

?This is a guidebook with a differenceone residents and visitors alike will want to treasure, reread and show their friends. That Sweet City offers a beguiling introduction to one of the fairest and most enthralling places in the world. Designed as seven walks across and around the citys centre, and radiating out from Oxford into the surrounding countryside, it provides pictures and poems describing each of the selected sights, together with a commentary and maps of the walks.