Ecology
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Tao Te Ching 1 and 2
1 the way you say is not the way the thing you name is not the thing unnameable: the root of all nameable: the surface so nameless wish: know the root named: the surface things these two come of one named differently two mysteries mystery mystery door between 2 everyone knows beauty ↔ ugliness… Continue reading
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The Magic Door, by Chris Torrance: A Review
The Magic Door, Chris Torrance, Test Centre, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-9935693-4-0, £30.00 By way of setting the scene, The Magic Door is an ongoing long poem-cycle centring around Torrance’s life in rural isolation in the Neath valley since the early 1970s and published in more or less impossible to find small press booklets over the period… Continue reading
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From Hill To Sea by the Fife Psychogeographical Collective: A Review
From Hill To Sea by the Fife Psychogeographical Collective (Murdo Eason), Bread and Circuses 2015, ISBN-13: 978-1625178879, £11.99 There can be a tendency to think of psychogeography as an essentially urban activity, the province of Baudelairean flâneurs and Situationist revolutionaries wandering the streets of Paris and London ley-line hunters, while non-urban walking is thought of as… Continue reading
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Memorious Earth by Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton: A Review
Memorious Earth: A Longitudinal Study by Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton. Corbel Stone Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-9572121-7-6, £15.00 (for the standard edition). Cumbria has a long association with writers and poets, from Wordsworth and Coleridge to Arthur Ransome, Beatrix Potter and Norman Nicholson. Some were born there, others, attracted by the remoteness of the landscape,… Continue reading
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The Book of the Green Man, by Ronald Johnson A Review
The Book of the Green Man, by Ronald Johnson, Uniformbooks 2015, ISBN 978 1 910010 04 4, £9.50. In the autumn of 1962, two American poets arrived in the UK to begin an extended visit. They spent that winter in the Lake District, in the footsteps of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Their spring included a… Continue reading
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LANDscape UL • Place, performance and imagination research seminar – all welcome
LANDscape UL • Place, performance and imagination. Place, performance and imagination Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 4-5.30pm, Tower Theatre, Irish World Academy of Music & Dance LANDscape research seminar – all welcom Speakers: Dr. Niall Keegan, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance ‘Mapping the Linguistic Turn – language, space and place in Irish traditional music’… Continue reading
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Global Oracle by Alec Finlay: A Review
Global Oracle by Alec Finlay, morning star 2014. £7.50 Sterling. Bees: they pollinate our food and most of the flowers in the world, provide us with honey, inhabit our mythology and in many cultures are associated with poetic inspiration. They are also central to Global Oracle and to the artwork it was written to accompany,… Continue reading
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The Sea by Rachel Carson
My contribution to the Guardian’s book for the beach series is up today. Have a look here. Continue reading
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Place Quotes
A handout from the International Literacy Day conversation. “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder “I hate scenery.” – Denis Devlin “Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock.” – Simon Schama in Landscape and Memory “The sudden… Continue reading
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