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The Glass Aisle by Paul Henry – a film.

13 Wednesday Jun 2018

Posted by The tuesday swim in Music, Photography and video, Reading

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aisle, books, brecon, brian, briggs, canal, crickhowell, glass, Henry, john, monmouthshire, moonlight, paul, poet, seren, the, welsh

At the beginning of May this year I spent two days in the company of poet Paul Henry to film the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal above Crickhowell in Powy where he wrote The Glass Aisle. The Glass Aisle is a long form poem and collection of songs written with Brian Briggs of Stornoway. The canal is rich with a industrial and social past, the workhouse, the kilns, and the canal is the stage for the Glass Aisle, haunted by voices that echo throughout this diverse landscape including the character John Moonlight, angler, Crickhowell. This film is a mesmerising journey, seeking ghosts from those who once lived and worked along the tow path. The Glass Aisle is available here

 

Scatterbrain!

19 Wednesday Feb 2014

Posted by The tuesday swim in Reading

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books, fishing, guides, pocket, scatterbox

When I was a wee laddie, I had a small book on fishing that I read time and time again. I have searched for it online for the last year to no avail until now. I guess not remembering the title or publishers didn’t help, all I could recall was it size, pocket-book size.

Last week I was thinking about this little book and a word came to me from nowhere, ‘scatterbox.’ Where this word came from I have no idea but somehow it was unlocked from my subconscious. Immediately I searched the word ‘scatterbox fishing book’ before I forgot it, and there it was in an instant my childhood circa 1979.

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Within two clicks I had ordered a copy of ‘Fishing’ from the Scatterbox range of pocket guides and two days later it arrived. Although I had long forgotten what was printed inside as each page was turned a wave of nostalgia accompanied me.




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