It’s World Water Day. I thought I would celebrate by sharing with you a small hint of the creative work I have been doing to explore ideas about rivers, ecology and fluminism. I don’t normally share my creative work in this blog. You can find much more poems and illustrations on my old site, now plagued with adverts, called Graftage. I will start to bring more of this creative work over here.
I like to combine poetic writing or creative non-fiction with my photographs, collages, ink drawings or prints. Much of what I do is based on research into histories of place, exploring how people have interacted with the more-than-human world – in a dynamic between regenerative and degenerative directions. Below is one example.
This visual poem is called Silt and Flow.
It’s a tale of two cities – Great Yarmouth and Norwich and the river Yare in between; of people, things and time; and these troubled times.
(Apologies for the lack of accessibility to screen readers, but I will aim to make a text version available soon.)