from Redmires Rivelin Wyming
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Kym Martindale & Harriet Tarlo
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[This work originated as part of an interdisciplinary research network, ‘HydroSpheres’ (AHRC grant AH/T006056/1), exploring the potential roles for collaborative arts practices in new modes of landscape decision-making based in the River Don catchment around Sheffield, UK.]
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conduit this line to line tethering the tethered -
nick here nick there round Middle Moss fret of cloughs sikes
springs hollows raise Middle Moss its saddleback
Black Clough
Churl Clough
Willow Spring
Hollow Meadows Brook
Trout Sike
their skirl against the scrabbier side
High Neb
Foul Hole
High Lad Ridge
spidering down for Rivelin Brook
secret of tousle moorland grass bend stiff bend in
bend
its folds and holds gathering tethering passing on
of
baton on
willow warbler, wagtail to Oaking Clough
would lead back up
round Middle Moss the conduit bounds
and binds
Black to Churl to Trout
bodying up for Rivelin Brook
all pool in pause at greylag fleets for Canada goose tucked in
mallard drake gloss alarm ruffle scuffle fright
SWW Water Office, windows
smash plank Board boarded
cornerstone shored, broken
red broom stood at lintelpoint
of light-into-dark glass swept
neon graffitied cold-rust stoved
in stove, apex chimney capped
tight and dark mark horizon
crazy path to the water’s edge
and gantry of its footbridge
conduit this smartens pace
deepens way
caged its banks
purpose line ridge for water bringing it home and home
strange sentinels reed bunting and wren call out gaps of sky stone wall
see that conduit go from bridge to bridge to bench
homes the water vole chubby-faced the warming sign
water to water to water
humped above and veered away quarry to trench and practice for war outline those
in memorial see through through lethal waters impound
lapwing curlew sandpiper layering layering
water to water to water
to Redmires
mapped/unmapped
reed marsh
reed and marsh
marshy reed
howling centuries and figures pass
in 1860 or thereabouts
these three
spooning in triplicate
shoving their rumps into each other humping away
jouncing the reed beds
thick musk
undermining victorian foundations
ha
that’s one way of looking at them
armadillos another
pricking out in file the valley theirs snouting grubs
curb feelers fronding heather
blunt mission