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