Bray seafront meets a garden of white roses. A migrant driver cleans his bus windows and a castaway lover follows new stars. Three sisters covet a tea-set and a stowaway rabbit escapes on the motorway. Fresh baked bread hugs a regretful holiday embrace and a cargo manifest reveals carefully boxed units of love and rage.

This is what is washed to shore when eight writers and five photographers joined forces at the Mermaid Arts Centre. This is the cargo of our souls.

The anthology showcases eight emerging Irish writers, beautifully adorned with photography from Wicklow and around Ireland. This book is more at home on the coffee table than the bookshelf, to digest the memoirs, short stories, cutting edge visual poetry and stunning photography from cover to cover.

All profits and royalties from this book donated to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) an organization whose voluntary crews have provided a literal lifeline to those on our seas for over 200 years.