Wheel showing a partial toponymic history of Ulpha, encircling a list of animal names derived from specific place-names within its catchment.
Monthly Archives: September 2012
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
