ENTER THE WATER is a dynamic and original verse narrative set in England, early 2022. It charts the journey of a homeless young man as he travels through a troubled country towards the coast, unmaking and making himself anew. Ali Smith hails Jack Wiltshire's joyous debut as 'A dark-light beauty'.
'Enter the Water has horizons and wit and allusion and rhyme and disenchanted politics and birds, and lines that hit the reader right in the heart . . . The writing is original and perfectly pitched . . . A significant debut' Ian Patterson
'A dark-light beauty' Ali Smith
'Eviction, insomnia, techno-divination and mythologies that "begin with a bird" mark the psychic "circumference" of Enter the Water . . . It's a place both visceral and perceptive' Bhanu Kapil