Ely: An experimental dream-poem

In this experimental dream-poem a famous European cathedral literally takes off and travels - as in a Japanese animated film - calling in at the Sargasso Sea, then the West Mariana Ridge in the western Pacific, and on to the Transantarctic Mountains. On board are a small band of people who happen to be in the cathedral when she takes off, led by a young and bemused cathedral canon.

The East Anglian Fenland - especially as it was in early medieval times - lies deep within the cathedral's sen...