Good, Occasionally Rhyming a Celebration of the Shipping Forecast

Good, Occasionally Rhyming: A Celebration of the Shipping Forecast is a 2025 anthology that merges poetry and prose to honor the iconic BBC broadcast, often described as a lullaby or mantra.

It highlights how the maritime weather report serves as comfort reading, using rhythmic, occasionally rhyming language to create a soothing, enchanting experience.

Compiled by Kathy Clugston and Rob Stepney, the work features contributions from various writers and poets, exploring the maritime, poetic, and soothing nature of the forecast.

Good, Occasionally Rhyming is a love letter in poetry and prose, from Britain's literary landscape to this iconic radio broadcast....That's the end of this shipping bulletin.