‘A polyphonic, multi-lingual celebration of these ubiquitous and yet enigmatic landscape features.’

Paul Stolper Gallery

Limnology (2012)

Limnology is a book that gathers together over 1000 'water-words' from the dialect of Cumbria and its tributaries in the Germanic and Celtic languages.

These words and their definitions become the source for a series of poems that explore water creation myths, the lives of water creatures (both real and imagined), and the paradox of waterless rivers.

The texts themselves are presented in a way that imitates riverine processes. The open book becomes a v-shaped valley — letters cascade down the page, overlap, merge and gather, forming pools and streams.

Limnology was exhibited at the Paul Stolper Gallery, London, in 2013.

[Limnology at Corbel Stone Press]