Stewed Rhubarb Press is delighted to announce the publication of The Boat Game by Siún Carden!

A striking new poetry pamphlet that explores the shifting waters between land and sea, technology and myth, intimacy and distance, The Boat Game moves through a world of ships, sea stacks, ferry routes, offshore rigs, and subsea cables, tracing the hidden systems that connect lives across oceans and islands. In these poems, tourist cruises hover above the wreck of the Titanic, decommissioned oil platforms linger as accidental reefs, and radio signals carry fragments of human voices across open water.

Carden’s poems attend closely to the infrastructures that shape contemporary life, shipping lanes, flight paths, tidal power stations, and satellite links, revealing the human stories threaded through them. From Shetland sea stacks to space missions, from childhood imaginings to maritime rescue channels, The Boat Game explores what it means to travel, to depart, and to remain.

Across the collection, boats become vessels for thinking about scale: how individual lives sit within vast systems of weather, technology, and time. Both playful and searching, The Boat Game asks how we orient ourselves in a world defined by movement, and what it means to watch, from shore, as something slowly disappears from view.