Precarious Straits writer-in-residence text launch:

‘PompeII?’ by Rose Cleary

Drawing on the temporal nature of the Estuary and Southend's positioning upon it, how does this influence the town's character? With progress a construct, can we think of Southend as between cultural classifications, moving from its supposed "heyday" towards something new? Or does the ever-dying high street point us back towards its ever-trilling arcades, its "golden mile" forever a liminal boundary against the threat of the sea, already Pompeii before it is swallowed whole?

Read a PDF version of ‘Pompeii?’ HERE or listen to the audio below.

Rose Cleary is a writer from Southend, Essex.