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A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: March
For the team at Kingcombe, the garden’s design and layout is geared far more to visitors with six or eight legs than two. In one corner is a well-stocked bug hotel, thoughtfully kitted out with bits of twig and straw, flowerpots stuffed with hollow bamboo stems, pinecones, hunks of mossy bark and scrolls of corrugated card. The only thing that’s missing is a little swinging sign saying ‘Vacancies’.
March 21, 2018A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: February
When I squatted down for a closer look, it revealed itself to be not stone but bone: the skull of a small mammal, the filigree of bone exposed on the underside, half a jaw, with a good set of teeth, lying separately. Hans Holbein couldn’t have devised it more perfectly: shift your angle just a little, look at something askance, and there’s a death’s head grinning back at you.
February 26, 2018A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: January
Kingcombe is a quietly enchanting place. The people are few, the cars are fewer and the wild world is left largely to its own devices.
January 22, 2018South West Poetry Tour #6 – David Sergeant & Mike Rose-Steel
The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…
October 26, 2016South West Poetry Tour #5 – Annabel Banks & Matti Spence
The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…
October 24, 2016South West Poetry Tour #4 – J.R. Carpenter & Camilla Nelson
The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…
October 20, 2016South West Poetry Tour #3 – SJ Fowler & John Hall
The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…
October 19, 2016South West Poetry Tour #2 – Simon Persighetti & Lucy Linford
The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…
October 16, 2016South West Poetry Tour #1 – David Devanny and John Canfield
The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…
October 13, 2016
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