Monthly Archives: May 2011

Cherry Tree The foot-long split cane looks up at thirty years of cherry tree breaking out its stays. A chicken-scratch wire skirt is short against it. If we climb the latest branch before sky (lookout higher than last year’s), we … Continue reading →

Hlo! More audio, more Featherstone-Miller-Goodwin antics: http://soundcloud.com/mark-scape-goodwin/tyburn-grove-bradgate m

Hlo! The Brand recording is on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/mark-scape-goodwin/slate-dark-water-the-brand. And we already have a rather positive comment about the poetry on @ 8 Oaks. m

it is making a birch-wish to sit on a slate-lip blue & sharp above a deep sky -drowned pool it is a cracking of birch bones black or white and a taking of a birch tree’s green tongues to sit … Continue reading →

Hlo! Well, I couldn’t leave it alone. I’ve spent most of the day working on Bradgate Oak Home – it is now sat on Leicestershire Landscape’s cloud: http://soundcloud.com/mark-scape-goodwin/bradgate-oak-home m

The third workshop saw a group of ten writers walking into The Brand, one of Leicestershire’s most unexpected landscapes.  Once used for branding cattle, and now the haunt of rock-climbers, the cliffs, water and meadows are a great place to … Continue reading →

Balance Sings (or Name Never) my feet feel the roll of a long beech branch air by & below me my hands green with gravity oooooooooooooooooooooooooolight is passing through my fingers I sway like a tree’s stillness speeded I stand … Continue reading →

Hlo Scapers! If you go here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24027682/Bradgate%20Oak%20Home%2C%20transcription%20%28incomplete%29.pdf  you can see a transcription of part of one of the improvs Kerry Featherstone, Elaine Miller and myself did at Bradgate Park. There is no way that I’m going to try to lay … Continue reading →

This week’s workshop saw us batting about Bradgate Park with an audio recorder.  From Old John to Tyburn via rocks and trees, we improvised lines in turn.  Sometimes it’s great to play with words, exchange images on the run, rather than writing in a … Continue reading →