19: Dru Marland's poetry, art and life on a narrowboat by Avon Stories published on 2018-02-15T22:41:59Z Dru Marland is a poet and artist who lives on a narrowboat on the Kennet & Avon Canal. I went to visit her on a wet, grey day, and she told me all about her work and her life on the water, and about the community of canal-people. We talked about how she started out as a poet, and the traumatic experience that lead her to become a full-time artist, as well as the beauties and difficulties of narrowboat life, from having to find a new berth every fortnight, to more prosaic issues like dealing with the mud, and a boat's equivalent of plumbing. You can find links to her work on my website, http://www.avonstories.com The illustration is Dru Marland's map of the West End of the Kennet & Avon Canal, and is used with her kind permission - all rights reserved. Genre Entertainment
