Tickled by the Turning Tide

<p><em>Tickled by the Turning Tide: The Folkestone Poems </em>is Tony's first collection of poetry. All thirty three verses have been inspired by his adopted home of Folkestone on the south eastern coast of Kent just twenty two miles from the European mainland.</p><p><br></p><p>Tony's poems range over key moments in the town's history from its fishing heritage to its role as a port of embarkation for war and from its period as a fashionable seaside resort which welcomed royalty and writers to its decline and subsequent regeneration as an art and dining destination. He also explores aspects of modern living in a town that is changing rapidly.</p><p><br></p><p>The poems are in turns celebratory nostalgic melancholy and even angry and are invested with Tony's characteristic wry wit and authority. </p>