Wild Correspondings
kin'd & kin'd
Kay Syrad
Clare Whistler
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Published in 2021 by Elephant Press
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h/edge online created for The Alde Valley Spring Festival April 25th - May 24th 2020
www.aldevalleyspringfestival.co.uk
kin'd & kin'd
Kay Syrad
Clare Whistler
We are most grateful to Jason Gathorne-Hardy for providing the residency in November 2019
at White House Farm, Great Glenham in Suffolk that enabled us to write h/edge.
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Published in 2020 by Elephant Press
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Poems written in response to a group walk and
wander on the Pevensey Levels, East Sussex
21/02/2020
Jemma Borg
Kim Lasky
Anna Selby*
Kay Syrad
Clare Whistler
*Simultaneously from the Marshbarn, Shropshire
With thanks to ecologist Evan Jones
WaterWeek 2020 Waterworks
Devised by artists Charlotte Still and Clare Whistler
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20 pages
145 x 198mm
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ISBN 978-1-9162336-3-8
Published in 2020 by Elephant Press
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‘Fabric-ation: Slip back to source’ was the second of our Changing Everything Carefully* eco-poetics courses to take place at the social and environmental justice space, ONCA, in Brighton. We define eco-poetry as a poetry that aspires to be conscious of what we are doing when we describe, record, interact with or take from what we call ‘nature’. This six-week course was an attempt to re-wild wearing – imagining and writing about, through embodied and connective experiences, the return of six fabrics (silk, rubber, wool, polyester, linen and eider) from human use to their non-human source.
Lucy Brennan Shiel
Jane Buckler
Lola Bunbury-Davies
Patrick Crawford
Sudakini Davies
Naomi Foyle
Alice Owen
Karen Smith
Vera Zakharov
40 pages
145 x 198mm
ISBN 978-1-9162336-2-1
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Poemish of the Wildand is a short anthology of eco-poems created at the pioneering (re)wilded estate, Knepp Wildland in West Sussex. Themes include loosening boundaries, how animals and invertebrates manage the land, water, migration and resilience. Edited by poet-artists Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler.
Kay Syrad
Clare Whistler
Jane Buckler
Lola Bunbury-Davies
Catherine Craig
Richard Ings
Kim Lasky
Ruth Lawrence
Karen Smith
48 pages
145 x 198mm
ISBN 978-1-9162336-0-7
Published in 2019 by Elephant Press
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A multi sensory exhibition with (invasive) plants
Bindweed, Floating Pennywort and Himalayan Balsam . Shift Gallery 2-23 June 2019
The first known use of the word invasive was in 1598
I ‘paint’ the walls of the gallery with the leaves and flowers of invasive species. I respond, move and create to the music written for each of the three plants. Visitors watch and wander, converse and read the poems and invasive species information on the walls of the gallery. The work continues for two hours, on occasion being interrupted by a recitation of the poems, nettle tea and a piece of cake and interweaving rising curiosity about how ‘invasive’ can be interpreted.
Poems
Kay Syrad
Music
Bindweed | Jonathan Dove
Floating Pennywort | Ian McCrae
Himalayan Balsam | Alex MacInnis
56 pages
190 x 220mm
ISBN 978-1-9162336-1-4
Published in 2019 by Elephant Press
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Poemish and Other Languages brings together the writing of a group of people attending kin'd & kin'd – Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler's eco-poetics course, ‘Changing Everything Carefully’ at ONCA Gallery, Brighton in the autumn of 2018.
Kay Syrad
Clare Whistler
Patrick Crawford
John Davies
Lola Bunbury-Davies
Elona Hoover
Béatrice Lajous
Ruth Lawrence
Jade Mars
Kate Monson
Persephone Pearl
Jennifer Shepherd
Karen Smith
Ruby Taylor
76 pages
190 x 220mm
ISBN 978-1-5272-3729-2
Published in 2019 by Elephant Press
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Clare Whistler’s Gifts project was inspired by a naming day gift for Clare’s eldest son in 1989. It was a box containing an egg for life, some coal for heat, evergreen for eternity, salt for health, a candle for light, bread for food, a coin for wealth and a silver ring for love throughout life.
Essays written and gifted by
Peter Sellars
Jonathan Dove
Sally-Shakti Willow
Matilda Bathurst
John May
Robin McKenna
Jen Mitas
Kris De Meyer
Jane Trowell
Archive film footage from the eight Gift events was reinterpreted into a film ‘Gifts’ by filmmaker Nichola Bruce with Sam Sharples.
300 pages
210 x 250mm
ISBN 978-1-5262-0360-1
Published in 2016 by Elephant Press
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