I like the idea of the latest publication from Longbarrow Press, a Sheffield-based independent poetry publisher producing work “that explores the intersections of landscape, history and memory”. To the End of the Land is a collaboration between Martin Heslop and Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia, Canada. Developed during a residency there at the childhood home of the poet Elizabeth Bishop, it’s “a sequence of poems – presented as texts, and also embedded in sound compositions – in which past, present and future slide across each other”. In an interview with their editor and publisher, Brian Lewis, Heslop and Tookey discuss the origins of the collaboration, their approach to the residency, and their responses to the landscapes of Nova Scotia.
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