A Foraged Map
Spread over my kitchen table, emptied from the various cloth bags and tubs, were the wild plants that I’d gathered that day. As I viewed them from above, deliberating as…
Root Mapping
Mapping the In-Betweens
By the time I was seven I had moved house four times in three countries on two continents. A few years later, I found myself dropped into another new place:…
Endlings: Drawing Extinction
There are many different approaches to drawing animals. In particular there was a shift in the 19th century away from French idealism towards an approach, led by British artists such…
A Place That Mattered
The place where my son died had horses. Only because when a dying boy asks you for a horse, you find more than one. You make your way away from…
Mapping Edge
Mapping Edge Finger touched mapped faded edge, unending ink black shaped lines, tracing hillsides I walked as a child. Black tufted strokes, old rough pastures, where curlews once…
Hommes sous Hommes
In 2005, I went to Palestine for three weeks with my parents, my wife and our daughter, aged two. We were invited to carry out workshops with young artists and…
From A Queer Ornithology
For those who delight more in the seed of things, I can say that these poems investigate queer, genderfluid indigeneity, and interspecies-relational philosophy through deep observation of wild birds.
Border Dreams
I never dream about maps. I used to draw them for a living. I have dreams about every other passion. It occurs to me that to dream about maps might…
Museum: Ursus americanus
On birches, bears, and the birth of farm animals: three new poems by Todd Davis.
Notes from the Field
An amateur entomological and botanical study in four locations, at five different times of day, by artist Anna Garrett.
A Place Older than People
New poetry of rocks and pigeons by Anne Haven McDonnell with accompanying work by artist Deborah Westmancoat.
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