Beyond the Fell Wall (Little Toller Monographs) - Hardcover

Skelton, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908213299 ISBN 13: 9781908213297

Publisher: Little Toller Books, 2015

Synopsis

A poetic enquiry into the life of a landscape.

About this title

About the Author:

RICHARD SKELTON is a musician and an artist from Lancashire, northern England. Over thepast decade he has produced a diverse and acclaimed body of work, including films, exhibitions,pamphlets, books, and albums of music that have been compared to both Arvo Part and Brian Eno.All his work is informed by landscape, evolving from sustained immersion in specific environmentsand wide-ranging research incorporating toponymy and language, ecology and geology, folkloreand myth. His books include Landings (2009), a personal study of the West Pennine Moors, MoorGlisk (2012), a poetic exploration of the effects of the Industrial Revolution on rural Lancashire,and Limnology (2012), a long typographical essay on the mythology of rivers, including a glossaryof over 1,000 'water-words'.

Review:

Beyond the Fell Wall is a graceful meditation upon the relationship between landscape, language and sound - The Spectator

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Toller Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1908213299
• ISBN 13: 9781908213297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184