49 shorelines and watery edges
Shorelines, rivers, lake edges: where water meets land is a whole discrete environment of its own, related to, but not like either water or land. This issue looks at minerals, rivers, bathymetry, aquaculture, watercourses, sea as refuge, sea and rivers as highways.
on site review 49: shorelines and watery edges
Shorelines and their watery edges. Rivers, lakes, oceans, seas. Shorelines mark the hinterland and the watery depths of every landmass on earth, they penetrate continents, they replenish, support life, feed us and renew themselves (if we let them). This issue has a wide range of takes on what is a shore, what is a river. At least two pieces raise the legal identity and agency of waterways. The word bathymetry (underwater version of topography, new to me) occurs in two different pieces. In two different poetic pieces war touches the shore lightly, very lightly, and then retreats. Walking occurs several times: long walks, short visits: walking a watery edge puts one in direct contact with ancient geologies and contemporary erosions.
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