Walk and surround
amongst ash teeth, birch graves
laid down in full view
fugitive sanctuary
earthen fort besets
wet figures in a scene of constants
this sheltered isle, a mast of shores
allied with frost and furze
and dark conifer trails
here memory enters in
amidst the shimmering wind and larksong
a stark cradle of hills
and only the river is an absent guide
wings and colonies – transmitted scent
gaining on the waters
lingering migrations divided sky
wings intricate, interlaced, scattered like glittering arms
galloping across storms in shamanic trances
on tideline strands
solitary intrusions on diminishing horizon
circles and pits, collars of ramparts and lithic gateways
now littered
on the fire-plain creeks and fleets
an edge place now damned
The Outer Silver Pit is a west-to-east valley in the bed of the North Sea. Its widest part is 125 to 175 km (75 to 105 miles) east of Flamborough Head in England. It is between the Dogger Bank and the ridge dividing the northern from the southern North Sea basins, which runs between Norfolk and Friesland.
There is a theory that the Outer Silver Pit was part of the valley of the great ice-age river Urstrom, during some of the Ice Ages when the Scandinavian ice did not meet the British ice, leaving the North Sea bed with open drainage northwards.
Coming soon, from Place Editions “..They Shall Not Rise Until Light Falls Upon Them..” a new sequence of text-works and images informed by the submerged landscapes of Doggerland. An aesthetic summoning and reconstruction of a lost epoch.
Texts by Eijls, images by Tracy Hill
Limited Boxed Edition with texts and artworks
PUBLICATION DATE: TBC
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