Category: Root Mapping
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Moon and More
Short lyric memoir exploring the deep maps of place and being – previously unpublished writing by Lori Mairs (1961- 2021).
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The Place Where Things Cannot be Measured
Before Assumptions / The Place Where Things Cannot Be Measured: two new poems taking inspiration from the natural world by Cabot Sayles.
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Essays on Dog Walking, I & II
Two poems from Thinking with Trees, the brilliant debut collection from Jason Allen-Paisant – published by Carcanet.
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Cartographies of the Imagination
Cartographies of the Imagination explores the outer limits of what a map can be, interrogating the bit of lost land that falls between the pages of an atlas, journeying to places known, unknown, forgotten and fictional. INTRODUCTION To map a place is to create a whole new one. Maps may begin…
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Fields of View
Chicago-based naturalist and botanist Andrew Hipp on the connecting threads between science, natural history and writing.
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4 generations of women topography
Fragments of text, film and photography: artist Tereza Stehlikova explores the bonds between the 4 women within her family.
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Making maps in the backwoods
Melanie Viets speaks to influential artist Jussi Kivi about mapping hidden histories in the landscapes around (and under) Helsinki and beyond.
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+ Other Cartographies
Kiara Marina Firpi Carrión reveals the motivations behind + Other Cartographies, a research project to highlight work by women map-makers.
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Sing the Gloaming
An interview with Professor Simon Kirby and artist/ musicians Tommy Perman and Rob St. John discussing their ongoing collaborative project, Sing the Gloaming.
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Haunting Stones
Delving back into the histories of Virginia, writer Darlene Taylor encounters song lyrics and merchant lists, slave narratives, adventure tales, and their material traces in buildings and landscape.
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Stories from The Whale Road
A journey from Iceland across to the Faroe Islands and finally to Sweden, by illustrator, artist and author Helen Cann.