Ulpha Wheel

Wheel showing a partial toponymic history of Ulpha, encircling a list of animal names derived from specific place-names within its catchment.

A List of Probable Flora

A list of probable flora for the landscape around Devoke Water, Ulpha & Birker Fell, Cumbria, UK.

Inter / Disinter 2

Multitude

MULTITUDE. A pamphlet, after Alice Meynell’s Rushes and Reeds.

Forthcoming via Corbel Stone Press.

Decline

One of the interesting things about collage is that there are two surfaces – the first, outward facing and readily visible, the other, inward facing, concealed, oblique. If the paper isn’t entirely opaque, there is sometimes a faint trace, a ghost imprint of the hidden stratum. A message in reverse.

134 Kestrels

DOMAIN. A pamphlet in which a poem about the kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) hovers over a landscape composed of folk-names for the bird in English, Welsh, Irish and Gaelic.

Kestrel populations are in decline in the UK. The reasons are as yet unknown, but it is thought that habitat loss is a key factor. The 134 folk-names gathered here are something of a linguistic population count. By no means complete, the list represents a historical, rather than contemporary, survey – a form of salvage, a shoring up, an attempt to stem the tide.

DOMAIN is forthcoming via Corbel Stone Press.

Rill

Inter / Disinter

Moor Glisk

MOOR GLISK. A book of 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.

And the moor wheels…

Anglezarke Moor “Wheel”, detailing a partial toponymic narrative of the place-name Anglezarke, from 1202 to 1894.