Timeline

2004

September
» First visits to Anglezarke Moor after an absence of many years.

2006

28th June
» Published the first Landings recording: Carousell ~ Landings [Sustain-Release] (SRL04).

2007

March
» Began writing an online journal, entitled Landings Diary.

April
» Began producing boxed editions containing music, texts, photographs and caches of natural ephemera – small stones, leaves, bark, twigs, pine cones, phials of river water.

Boxed Edition

2008

December
» First visit to Ulpha, in Cumbria, with A. Richardson.

2009

February
» Second visit to Ulpha, to begin work with A. Richardson on what would become Wolf Notes.

28th June
» Published the 2nd Landings recording: Richard Skelton ~ Landings [Sustain-Release] (SRL14), together with a chapbook of text fragments.

SRL14 ~ Landings Diary CD & Chapbook

October
» Moved to the south-west of Cumbria, to continue work on Wolf Notes.

December 12th
» Published Landings, 96pp book, [Sustain-Release] together with a reissue of SRL14.

Landings Book + CD

2010

March
» Moved to the west coast of Ireland.

July 4th
» Published Landings (2nd Edition), 96pp book [Sustain-Release].
» Published Skin & Heather and Into the Bare Moorland poetry chapbooks [Corbel Stone Press].

Corbel Stone Press CSP002

December 8th
» Published Wolf Notes (folio edition), 46pp poetry chapbook, 34pp glossary, music CD & phial of incense [Corbel Stone Press].

2011

June 1st
» Published Wolf Notes (2nd edition), 16pp poetry chapbook and album of music [Corbel Stone Press / Æolian Editions].

Wolf Notes

June 28th
» Published Landings (3rd edition), 292pp book [Sustain-Release].
» Published 3rd Landings recording: Richard Skelton ~ Rapture, available as part of the 3-album set, The Complete Landings [Æolian Editions].

Landings Book ~ 3rd Edition

July 21st – August 28th
» Exhibited Landings at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.

Landings at the Douglas Hyde Gallery

Landings at the Douglas Hyde Gallery

Landings at the Douglas Hyde Gallery

July 29th
» Returned to the south-west of Cumbria, UK.

September 22nd
» Published Black Combe [Æolian Editions] – a recording for the hill of the same name on west Cumbrian peninsula.

2012

March 20th
» Published Field Notes (Volume One) (with A. Richardson), 94pp book [Corbel Stone Press]. Includes Skin & Heather and Into the Bare Moorland, with others. Also gathers together some texts written on the west coast of Ireland, entitled The Flowering Rock.

Field Notes

» Published Ridgelines, 12pp chapbook [Corbel Stone Press] – two text works, one for Black Combe, Cumbria, and one for Cappanawalla, County Clare.

June 4th
» Published Verse of Birds, 2 x CD [Corbel Stone Press]. Recordings made on the west coast of Ireland – an auditory companion to the texts of The Flowering Rock.

Verse of Birds

September
» Published Landings (4th Edition), 294pp book [ISBN: 978-0-9572121-1-4, Corbel Stone Press].

Landings

» Published Moor Glisk, 44pp book [ISBN: 978-0-9572121-2-1, Corbel Stone Press]. Three fragmentary texts about the West Pennine Moors in northern England. An extension and collage of Landings, amongst other texts, retelling the history of the county of Lancaster, its industry, language, topography, flora and fauna.

Moor Glisk

November

» Published Limnology, 86pp book [ISBN: 978-0-9572121-3-8, Corbel Stone Press]. A book about rivers, lakes and other inland waterways, Limnology is a sequence of word-lists, text rivers and myth-poems that explore the rich corpus of water words found in English, the dialect of Cumberland, Icelandic, Anglo-Saxon, Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Welsh and Proto-Celtic.

Art Edition includes an A3 lithograph, A4 digital prints, an A6 postcard, and the new pamphlet “Rill”.

2013

March
» Exhibited new work, Relics, On Naming and Wolfhou with Autumn Richardson at the Kunsthall, Bergen.

New Work by *AR exhibited at Bergen Kunsthall

New Work by *AR exhibited at Bergen Kunsthall

April

» Exhibited Limnology at the Paul Stolper Gallery, London, as part of “The Silence Between” sound art series.

Limnology Exhibition (Paul Stolper Gallery)

Limnology Exhibition (Paul Stolper Gallery)

Limnology Exhibition (Paul Stolper Gallery)