Landings - by Richard Skelton (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Landings is a deeply personal and unique response to the moorland landscape of Anglezarke in northern England. Written over the course of half a decade, the book is assembled from a diverse sources: texts excised from the author's own notebooks and diaries are combined with excerpts from census and parish records, maps and historical treatises.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Richard Skelton is an artist from northern England. Since 2005 he has produced a series of musical recordings and books that engage with the hidden histories and ecologies of specific landscapes. <em>Landings</em> is a collection of texts for the West Pennine Moors of Lancashire, UK, drawn from various sources, including historical treatises, maps, parish records, census data and the artist's own diaries, notebooks and essays. The book obliquely documents his use of music, writing and photography as means of 'colluding' with the various agencies of the land: the seen and the unseen, the heard and the unheard, the 'real' and the imaginary, the living and the dead. Originally published in 2009 as a modest 96-page book, <em>Landings</em> has grown over the ensuing years as it attempts to record, transcribe and archive the voices of the here and now, the lost and forgotten.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Cumbria has been a prime locale for English verse since the Lake Poets immortalized it in the early nineteenth century. Skelton's haunted and evocative poetic writings, ethereal yet oddly material, both continue and dissolve this tradition - a poetry of animal and mineral traces or residues that stir the topographical imagination."<br /> (Paul Sheehan)</p><p>"A sustained reflection on the nature of land and biography. ... An idiosyncratic archiving of local topographies and the secrets they hold."<br /> (Martyn Hudson)</p><p>"A pained record-keeping of the Anglezarke moor - a textual summoning-back of its lost and forgotten ... litanies spoken against loss".<br /> (Robert Macfarlane)</p><br>
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