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Life comes at you in waves, sometimes they carry you to new shores, sometimes you risk drowning in the flood. Life is a pulse, a heart pumping the blood of now and the blood memories of the past and of your ancestors. Life is a beat, a dance, a festival where you watch Portishead in a field as the sun sets. Life is the rhythm of all three together, it is the beat, the pulse, the wave that brings you to this moment. Jeremy Dixon pauses to consider and celebrate that which was, that which is and that which could be.

If this book was a keyboard technique it would be the glissando: Jeremy Dixon hits every note in a smooth, expressive and always arresting performance. From the music of the Eighties to Ancient Egypt, from King Canute to the Blitz, this is a collection that zooms across time and space, remembering ancestors and allies along the way. Past conflicts cast a shadow over our own turbulent times, and ecological change is documented with wit as well as concern. Despite rising tides and shifting dunes, the tone is resilient and the flow of life is fierce: an ancient green knight is rediscovered to have an irresistibly erotic charge, a spring spirit awakening queer desire and radical hope. The Beat The Pulse The Wave is an exuberant and accomplished collection, an irresistible glittering literary mirrorball guaranteed to thrill any reader who dares to tie on the red shoes.

Nancy Campbell, author of Disko Bay