{"product_id":"memorious-earth-autumn-richardson-9781999971847","title":"Memorious Earth: A Longitudinal Study","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 2010 and 2015, Autumn Richardson \u0026amp; Richard Skelton produced a series of collaborative artworks, publications and editions about the upland landscapes of south-western Cumbria, in northern England. Key to their work has been the development of the list-poem, which, at its most fundamental, magnifies the act of attention and the facility of language - through naming - to refer to things, places, to life itself. The texts they assemble frequently contain material drawn from a variety of sources: pollen diagrams, dialect glossaries, cartographic records, archaeological tracts - but their repurposing of this material as art is deeply humane, aimed at drawing the attention towards the lost, forgotten or overlooked. It celebrates the poetry and beauty that such attention can reveal, and gently urges each of us towards a more intimate relationship with our natural surroundings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn January of 2015, the Cumbrian charity Lakeland Arts staged an exhibition of their work at Abbot Hall and Blackwell. The show incorporated printed matter, artefacts, assemblages, music and film from the previous five years, along with new works, including a wolf skeleton focal piece, generously loaned from Kendal Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMemorious Earth\u003c\/em\u003e collects the artists' Cumbrian work between 2010 and 2015, incorporating all their previously published (and now out-of-print) text works with an introductory overview written by the artists themselves. First published by their own Corbel Stone Press in 2015, this new Xylem Books edition includes two subsequently commissioned pieces, \u003cem\u003eThwaite\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFurness Fells\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as a gazetteer of place-names from the south-western uplands. \u003cem\u003eMemorious Earth\u003c\/em\u003e is a vital document of what must surely constitute one of the most significant small-press collaborations of recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn Richardson, Richard Skelton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1999971841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781999971847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Xylem Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.40d","brand":"Autumn Richardson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991322525951,"sku":"9781999971847","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70470763-a84e-4d8c-8d27-cf5bd9f7c66a.jpg?v=1683309639","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/memorious-earth-autumn-richardson-9781999971847","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}