‘His art becomes the refraction point for a series of intersecting discourses.’

Martyn Hudson (Landscapes Journal)

Moor Glisk (2012)

Moor Glisk is a short sequence of experimental writing that focuses on the landscape and environmental history of the West Pennine Moors in Lancashire.

It is the sequel to Landings, and is similarly concerned with the relationship between language and locality, but it abandons autobiography in order to more fully assimilate other voices and perspectives.

The ‘archival impulse’ that began in Landings has now become a kind of literary divination, a scattering of bones. Moor Glisk disassembles and reassembles the Landings word-hoard, mixing in further documentary sources to essay a kind of bleak and surreal alternative history of the industrialisation of rural North-West England.

Moor Glisk is collected in The Pale Ladder.

[The Pale Ladder at Corbel Stone Press]