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The Tale of The Journey
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The Tale of The Journey
to The Dead Engine in The Shed at The Bottom of
Heaven’s Walls
being a poetic voyage into the depths of Dinorwig Quarries
Introduction:
The Tale of The Journey is a sound-enhanced version of a poem that remembers a collaborative exploration made by a poet, photographer and climber. The original text version of the poem is published in Mark Goodwin’s Rock as Gloss (Longbarrow Press, 2019). This sound-enhanced version is a mix of on location field-recordings, including Mark performing the poem amongst the slate slabs & rubble of Dinorwig Quarries in North Wales.
In January 2009 poet Mark Goodwin, photographer Nikki Clayton and internationally renowned rock-climber Johnny Dawes shared a trip down into Dinorwig Quarries. These vast holes of haunting slate consist of forty galleries, hundreds of feet deep, extending over an area of seven hundred acres. They are a climbers’ playground … and the many tunnels, inclines, winding-houses and vertiginous rusting ladders offer exhilarating and bewitching opportunity for exploration. However, the slate-ancient sadness and pain this place contains is sharp ¬– for these mountainside holes were where many Welsh people struggled and suffered to extract slate … this place killed people.
Since his teens (in the 1980s) Mark has had a go at making poems from this ruptured ground … and has also given time to audio-recording its rich sound-sculptural atmosphere … dripping water, cronking ravens, and sliding slate-scree. The Tale of The Journey is one of his more successful struggles with this intricately layered place of deep rift and play.
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Quarryman
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Mark Goodwin - poet-sound-artist England, UK
Mark Goodwin is a poet-sound-artist who speaks & writes in various ways.
Mark has
published a number of poetry books & chapbooks with various poetry houses, including intergraphia books, Longbarrow Press & Shearsman Books.
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