From memories that travel generations to the migration of people over the seas, waves represent fluid processes of change, reiteration and continuity that move and connect us across time, space, ways of life and states of being. The patterns of the tides shape both our inner and outer landscapes, governing our moods, feelings, habitats and voyages. Histories repeat in a back-and-forth between past and future. Shorelines speak of colonisation, climate change and the porous bounds of home and self.

In the second volume of the elements series, writers of colour from coastal cultures across the world explore the power of water in motion. Guided by forces both human and otherworldly, the waves in these stories, poems and essays transport, sustain, soothe, overwhelm and even drown us in this Water-themed anthology for children of the sea.

The Hajar Book of Waves is the second volume in elements, a series by Hajar Press on the politically transformative power of Fire, Earth, Water and Air.