{"id":5584,"date":"2024-11-12T08:14:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T08:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2024-11-12T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:57:17","slug":"we-were-by-the-tumbling-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/we-were-by-the-tumbling-stream\/","title":{"rendered":"We were by the tumbling stream.<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the second Moss Worlds workshop, we met at Manchester Museum to tour the herbarium with Rachel Webster – Who had prepared a display of highlights from the extensive bryophytes collection. Interestingly, there were also several maps on display, which connected with my moss map<\/a> project, an idea that’s developed in parallel with this research.<\/p>\n

The workshop’s second segment, led by poet and researcher Abbi Flint, introduced us to the concept of poetry as a research method. I was particularly intrigued by the idea of poetic transcription,<\/p>\n

which I realised I had experimented with in previous projects. Here is my outcome based on the text I was given to work with. I decided to change extracts of the text to the perspective of the moss rather than the collector.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We were by the tumbling stream<\/h2>\n
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We are by the tumbling stream,<\/p>\n

by the rocks dripping with water,<\/p>\n

developing our texture in the constant moisture.<\/p>\n

We are on the ground, and we are among the stumps.<\/p>\n

We may vanish to appear no more until succeeding sessions.<\/p>\n

We are peeping over the wall.<\/p>\n

We are in the bogs the clay\u00a0soil,\u00a0and on the old apple trees,<\/p>\n

we are tenants of the neglected Flowerpot.<\/p>\n

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They are captivated by our verdant carpets.<\/p>\n

They find us among the rocks of sandstone slate and limestone,<\/p>\n

they find novelty in each district, whilst their search was in vain elsewhere.<\/p>\n

They extended their lists, travelling yet further,<\/p>\n

toward the commons so that they may find us.<\/p>\n

They remove us with pocket knives and other necessary apparatus,<\/p>\n

submitting us to the microscope.<\/p>\n

reaping their richest harvests, they remove our surplus rocks and soil.<\/p>\n

They squeeze out our water and lay us out and press us until quite dry,<\/p>\n

reserved at their convenience, we are kept for years unchanged.<\/p>\n

We developed our texture in the constant moisture,<\/p>\n

by the tumbling stream and the rocks dripping with water.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Poetic transcription of Braithwaite (1883) \u2018Mosses\u2019 Taylor, J.E. Notes on Collecting and Preserving Natural History Objects London W.H. Allen Pp 145-158<\/p>\n

See the moss worlds website here: https:\/\/mossworlds.co.uk\/about-mossworlds\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poetic transcription of Braithwaite (1883) \u2018Mosses\u2019 Taylor, J.E. Notes on Collecting and Preserving Natural History Objects London W.H. Allen Pp 145-158<\/p>\n

Outcome from Moss Worlds Workshop 2, 8th Nov 2024 (Session 2 led by Abbi Flint Poet and Researcher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[328,279,9],"tags":[290,330,294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5653,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}