Elephant
Poemish of the Wildland
Poemish of the Wildand is a short anthology of eco-poems created at the pioneering (re)wilded estate, Knepp Wildland in West Sussex. Themes include loosening boundaries, how animals and invertebrates manage the land, water, migration and resilience. Edited by poet-artists Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler.
Kay Syrad
Clare Whistler
Jane Buckler
Lola Bunbury-Davies
Catherine Craig
Richard Ings
Kim Lasky
Ruth Lawrence
Karen Smith
48 pages
145 x 198mm
UK £10 + £3.50 P&P
ISBN 978-1-9162336-0-7
Published in 2019 by Elephant Press
All rights reserved
A small press
Poemish and Other Languages brings together the writing of a group of people attending kin'd & kin'd – Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler's eco-poetics course, ‘Changing Everything Carefully’ at ONCA Gallery, Brighton in the autumn of 2018.
Kay Syrad
Clare Whistler
Patrick Crawford
John Davies
Lola Bunbury-Davies
Elona Hoover
Béatrice Lajous
Ruth Lawrence
Jade Mars
Kate Monson
Persephone Pearl
Jennifer Shepherd
Karen Smith
Ruby Taylor
76 pages
190 x 220mm
UK £10 + £3.50 P&P
ISBN 978-1-5272-3729-2
Published in 2019 by Elephant Press
All rights reserved
Clare Whistler’s Gifts project was inspired by a naming day gift for Clare’s eldest son in 1989. It was a box containing an egg for life, some coal for heat, evergreen for eternity, salt for health, a candle for light, bread for food, a coin for wealth and a silver ring for love throughout life.
Essays written and gifted by
Peter Sellars
Jonathan Dove
Sally-Shakti Willow
Matilda Bathurst
John May
Robin McKenna
Jen Mitas
Kris De Meyer
Jane Trowell
Archive film footage from the eight Gift events was reinterpreted into a film ‘Gifts’ by filmmaker Nichola Bruce with Sam Sharples.
300 pages
210 x 250mm
UK £24.95 + £3.50 P&P
ISBN 978-1-5262-0360-1
Published in 2016 by Elephant Press
Clare Whistler © All rights reserved