So delighted to celebrate Spring with the installation of one of the UK’s #TreeCharter legacy Tree Poles in Grizedale Forest. Carved with a poem, the pole is set beneath some of the forest’s tallest trees. Read More
Look to the trees!
The Space of Imagining: Violet at the Trout Beck Alder
The last of the seven installations for The Long View: suspended books, imaginings and future trees … Read More
Rising Above the White Noise : Blue at the Langstrath Birch
There was nothing but white noise. I was standing in the centre of it, shaking from the adrenalin that surged through me with the fear of slipping as I jumped from one wet rock to another, trying to keep myself steady while holding a 44-metre spread of sixty words that were weighty with water. At… Read More
Points of view and settling with tension
The fifth installation: seven stones, a poem created during seven hours walking, and thoughts on tension and points of view. Read More
Into the Blue : Planning
Planning the installation at the Langstrath Birch – bringing blue to the tree Read More
From the Heart: Green – the third installation
We’re just back from quite an amazing afternoon. Today the Little Asby Hawthorn had a transformation. It has been leafless since late October: high on the limestone scar of Little Asby Common winter comes early. This afternoon, we added a fresh canopy of leaves to it, each leaf carrying a memory, a story or a… Read More
Rising: poetry in place
Yesterday was one of those autumn days when golds, reds and greens become dazzling against a bright sky. Glencoyne Woodland was dreamy – sunlight making the canopies of ash, oak and sycamore leaves a play of translucent colour. Once again the weather forecast was spot on, and our choice of day to hang the orange… Read More
THE LONG VIEW 