Accepted for the White Cube exhibition at StAnza, Scotland's International poetry festival, March 2025 and part of the Off Page visual poetics annual celebration. This is a poem about deep time geology and crossing the divide between Hampshire and Dorset and below surface memories it reveals. The soundtrack is composed especially for this poem with Catherine Eunson on Cello and Alison Cohen on percussion.
geology
The Great Eucrite
Ardnamurchan peninsular the most westerly point in the UK. Its volcanic centre is most notable for its place in developing ideas on how magma is emplaced in the upper continental crust. The gabbroic “Great Eucrite” is the finest example of a ring dyke. This video poem is inspired by the volcanic heart of Ardnamurchan its impact on the landscape as well as other great events that impacted on the communities who lived there.
The Rhinns Complex
Everything on Islay seems flighty - from nervous sheep, scattering brown hares, endlessly lifting geese and a very anxious wind blowing from all directions - as if everything has a need for counselling. The only things that seem stable are the rocks where they connect with the earths crust. This geographical area hosts a geological phenomena known as the Rhinns Complex. The only part of Islay that doesn't seem to have a complex.
Orkney Stories 4 Loch of Skaill
This is the fourth of my Orkney Stories video. Looking at the soft green landscape its hard to believe millions of years ago it was a sandstone desert and was located near the equator. I'm also delighted to announce that the first three Orkney Story videos have been accepted for Earth lines
Geopoetry 2020
I am so pleased to be invited to speak at this years Geopoetry 2020 event which will take place on line. The free registration website is now open: https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/geopoetry20 if you want to join us. Here are my submissions based on human connection with landscape.
