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Overview
Richard Skelton is an artist from northern England. Since 2005 he has produced a series of musical recordings and books that engage with the hidden histories and ecologies of specific landscapes. Landings is a collection of texts for the West Pennine Moors of Lancashire, UK, drawn from various sources, including historical treatises, maps, parish records, census data and the artist's own diaries, notebooks and essays. The book obliquely documents his use of music, writing and photography as means of 'colluding' with the various agencies of the land: the seen and the unseen, the heard and the unheard, the 'real' and the imaginary, the living and the dead. Originally published in 2009 as a modest 96-page book, Landings has grown over the ensuing years as it attempts to record, transcribe and archive the voices of the here and now, the lost and forgotten.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781999971854 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Xylem Books |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2019 |
| Pages: | 326 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.68(d) |
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Table of Contents
Landings : Valley of the Small River (2009)
3 Anglezarke
7 The Copse at the Brow of School House Lane
8 A Meadow Below Noon Hill Wood
9 Noon Hill Wood
10 The Grey Bird
12 The Book
13 Scar Tissue
18 Child
19 Coda
21 Threads Across the River
27 Dismantled
28 Lines of Flight
29 I Wanted to Tell You
30 A Mandate
32 Source
34 Running a Line
38 Sounds of the Moor
40 Hollow (Reprise)
41 Green Withins Brook
43 Caged
44 Yield
45 Cling
46 A Fitting Gesture
49 Cuckoo
50 Seemed
51 Bringing in the May
52 Mirror
53 Of the Last Generation
55 By the Banks of the Yarrow
56 Hordern Stoops
58 Undertow
59 Voice of the Book
60 Offering
62 The Stair on the Moor
63 Scriptures
64 Beckoning
65 Firmament
66 Epitaph
67 From an Unmarked Ruin
69 Let Slip
71 Rapture
73 Pariah
74 Embers
79 Gone
80 Autumn
81 Fall
82 Mimesis
84 Made
85 On Samhain
86 River Song
87 Name
Landings : Names. Dates. Genealogies. (2011)
103 Something Unresolved
108 Relics
110 Custody
117 Abyss
118 Deserted
119 Anglezarke
122 Façade
123 Proximity
124 Miniature
126 Testimonies
127 The River Beneath
128 Feather
129 Root
132 Line
133 Echo
135 Rivington
139 Mere
140 Bond
141 Loom
142 Litany
Word-Hoard (2015)
153 Weight of Days
157 Quiet Fury
159 Reliquary
Chemical Memories (2019)
167 Limbs
168 Beginnings
171 Vision
172 Girl-Ghost
174 The Photograph
175 The Weaver’s Burden
176 Compass
177 Becoming
Appendices
Lancashire Dialect Terms
183 Of the Landscape
187 Of Plants
192 Of Animals, Insects, Etc
196 Of Farming
203 Of Fire
204 Of Weaving, Cloth-Making, Etc
206 Miscellaneous
209 Abbreviations
Farm Names from Census Records
214 Census Street Index, Anglezarke
216 Census Street Index, Rivington
Farm Names from Cartographic Records
227 The First Edition 6-Inch Map (1849)
230 The First Edition 25-Inch Map (1894)
234 A Digest
The Book
242 1 Wilcock’s Farm [(Butter Cross)]
243 2 Morris House
244 3 Alance
245 4 Parson’s Bullough
246 5 Stones House
247 6 Jepson’s
248 7 High Bullough
249 8 Peewet Hall
250 9 Fogg’s
251 10 Abbot’s
252 11 Wilkinson Bullough
253 12 & 13 Simm’s
255 14 Lower Hempshaws
256 15 Higher Hempshaws
257 16 Stoops
258 17 Old Knowles
259 18 Brown Hill
260 19 Higher House
261 20 Coomb
262 21 Old Rachel’s
263 22 Moses Cockers
264 23 Appendix
Notes
269 Landings : Valley of the Small River
285 Landings : Names. Dates. Genealogies.
290 Word-Hoard
291 Chemical Memories
292 Farm Names from Cartographic Records
293 The Book
Index
297 Brooks, Rivers & Streams
298 Hills & High Ground
299 Moors, Pasture & Shieling
300 Reservoirs & Water
300 Woods & Plantations
301 Birds & Bird Song
302 Trees
303 Flora, Fauna & Mineral
304 The Old Farms & Buildings
306 Other Notable References
307 Bibliography