Beyond the Fell Wall by Richard Skelton
RICHARD SKELTON has spent nearly half a decade living in a small valley, high in the Furness hills of Cumbria, in northern England. When not writing or composing music, most of his days are spent beating the valley's bounds, exploring its network of paths, streams and walls. Beyond the Fell Wall is a distillation of his thoughts and observations on this particular patch of land. It is a poetic enquiry into the inanimate life of a landscape - its unheard melodies and unseen movements. It considers both vast geological epochs and brief moments of intimacy, and in turn it asks us to consider sentience in all things - animal, vegetable and mineral. At its heart is the fell wall itself - a vast, serpentine entity. A vessel for the lives, voices and myths of the landscape. The dark heart about which all of life and death revolves. With illustrations by the exceptionally talented printmaker Michael Kirkman, Beyond the Fell Wall will is set to become a higly sort-after and collectable volume of landscape writing that follows in the footsteps of Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood's collaboration in Holloway.
RICHARD SKELTON is a musician and an artist from Lancashire, northern England. Over thepast decade he has produced a diverse and acclaimed body of work, including films, exhibitions,pamphlets, books, and albums of music that have been compared to both Arvo Part and Brian Eno.All his work is informed by landscape, evolving from sustained immersion in specific environmentsand wide-ranging research incorporating toponymy and language, ecology and geology, folkloreand myth. His books include Landings (2009), a personal study of the West Pennine Moors, MoorGlisk (2012), a poetic exploration of the effects of the Industrial Revolution on rural Lancashire,and Limnology (2012), a long typographical essay on the mythology of rivers, including a glossaryof over 1,000 'water-words'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908213297 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908213299 |
| Title | Beyond the Fell Wall |
| Author | Richard Skelton |
| Series | Little Toller Monographs |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little Toller Books |
| Year published | 2015-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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