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Speaking Stones
At the opening of the current Fringe Arts Bath exhibition at 8/9 New Bond Street Place, Bath, I saw – and heard – Alun Ward’s new sound installation, Sea Hear. It sparked in my mind a set of associations about … Continue reading
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Tagged Alun Ward, beach, Bible, Deep Time, Folk Tales, Fringe Arts Bath, geology, Gloucestershire Ghost Tales, History Press, Hugh Lupton, Kirsty Hartsiotis, landscape, memory, novel, pebble, rock, sea, Sea Hear, Seneca, short story, sound art, sound installation, spirit, stone, story, Storystone
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The Origin of ‘Deep Time’
I first came across the phrase ‘deep time’ in a pair of books I copy-edited for the Geological Society in 1998. I realised at once that Deep Time had to be the title of the novel I’d recently started writing. … Continue reading
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Tagged age of the earth, Charles Lyell, Deep Time, earth, ecological crisis, ecosystem, geology, James Hutton, John McPhee, novel, strata
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Time and Loss and Imagining
It was on a geological field trip to Arran in 1984 that I first expressed to anyone a sense of loss I felt in connection with my awareness of the vastness of deep time. This became part of my motivation … Continue reading
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Tagged anamnesis, animal, Deep Time, ecosystem, environment, erosion, extinct, geology, imagination, Jay Ramsay, loss, Plato, strata, unconformity
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