Slack Tide

Slack tide is the turning point when a body of tidal water can seem uncertain as to whether it is coming in or going out. While surface water may be deceptively calm at this time, below the surface huge divergent forces are at work. In the title of Sarah Day's ninth collection the term suggests the twenty-first century Zeitgeist. World events and global forces are an oblique presence in much of this collection in whose poems private and public disturb one another's space and boundaries.