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What flows beneath: an interview with Tom Bolton
London is inexhaustible. It’s a place you can never truly get to the bottom of.
January 6, 2020 -
Artefact: A footnote by Jo Sweeting
I have carved words every day for years: on the skin, into the body of stone.
December 4, 2019 -
Learning a Stone by Beatrice Searle
I wait a few seconds and tap along the line again then pause to hear the sound emitted by the stone.
December 4, 2019 -
Artefact: The Explosives Factory by Louise Kenward
The land holds their memory. His films remind me of times I hadn’t known and don’t remember.
December 3, 2019 -
Artefact: Church of the Storms by Alex Woodcock
The branch of a tree scraped against the window, breaking my reminiscence.
December 2, 2019 -
The Ramsbury Elm by Peter Marren
The village of Ramsbury, where I live, is best known for a natural landmark: a tree. It stands, or rather it stood, where four roads meet, in the exact centre of the…
December 2, 2019 -
Interchange by John Wedgwood Clarke
She squeezes the stone in her hand. Light ripples along traffic cones.
November 19, 2019 -
Ring of Downs: Extracts by Maryanne Grant Traylen
Dog imprisons the thing, clamping it into his quivering, jaunty jaw…
October 23, 2019 -
Places of Poetry: Oval Time by Zaffar Kunial
The O of their open mouths watching a last innings. A last Test. Of not knowing how many summers you’ll have left.
October 15, 2019 -
Places of Poetry: a northerly aspect by Kayo Chingonyi
…here where the landscape is a long conversation …
October 15, 2019 -
Time and Place by Alexandra Harris – an extract
In medieval almanacs the year was often represented on a dial, with the months arranged around the edge.
October 9, 2019 -
Wild Horses by James Roberts
Our relationship with the wild, and with what’s left of the wild inside us, is at a critical stage.
September 23, 2019
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