Island lines

Being a cycle of short spoken poems composed during fieldwork on North Manitou Island, May-August 2021. Recorded on the spot, carried home as sound, transcribed into text only later. A booklet of all the poems is available in the bookshop.

07
'in june'
(for pitcher's thistle)
31 May
06
'lock-stitch'
(for least sandpiper)
24 May
05
'subtle body'
(for green heron)
21 May
04
'to soil'
(for turkey vulture)
20 May
03
'attention'
(for white-tailed deer)
14 May
02
'chorus'
14 May
01
'back here'
7 May