Last week we had a very productive meeting with poet Jean Atkin, who has researched and written some beautiful poems about the loss of farms within the area of the Dark Skies Park. The skies are so dark in the Park because of the very low population and many once working farms have been abandoned.
A book of her poetry called 'The Dark Farms' is being published shortly and she will be reading some of them at the Wigtown Book festival 28 Sept - 7th Oct.
See http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com
"Jean Atkin’s new collection of poems focuses on the Galloway Forest Park, its depopulated glens, shrinking agriculture and extraordinarily dark skies. This is poetry about the ghosts of sheep, countless stars and generations of paths obliterated by pine forests. Jean Atkin is a previous winner of the Ravenglass Poetry Prize. She worked on The Dark Farms for eight months during 2011, walking the forest, talking to residents and reading old books and maps"
We are hoping to collaborate with Jean and incorporate some of her writing into new work we are making to be highlighted as part of the Dark Skies programme at the Wigtown Book Festival
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Friday, 3 August 2012
We watched 'In the Shadow of the the Moon" last night. It was fantastic - the interviews with the astronauts included them talking about how the amazing experience of going to the moon and back had affected them.
The official blurb goes as follows:
In the shadow of the moon is an intimate epic, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion, of this extraordinary era in American history. Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the moon.Only 12 American men walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first, and very possibly the last, time, In the shadow of the moon combines archival material from the original NASA film footage, much of it never before seen, with interviews with the surviving astronauts. The astronauts emerge as eloquent, witty, emotional and very human.
The official blurb goes as follows:
In the shadow of the moon is an intimate epic, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion, of this extraordinary era in American history. Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the moon.Only 12 American men walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first, and very possibly the last, time, In the shadow of the moon combines archival material from the original NASA film footage, much of it never before seen, with interviews with the surviving astronauts. The astronauts emerge as eloquent, witty, emotional and very human.
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