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ANDREA TURNER
If we follow a barely visible track through an arch in a high stone wall, we can cross from the outside to the inside. There is chaos, disorder, death, life, and we have work to do here. Our work is to listen; to hear what asks to speak. To look; to see the wholeness and the fragmentation. To feel in this small wood, which belongs utterly to itself, a sense of our own belonging and our unbelonging.
February
Quartz and Opal
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I tread the chiselled marble land. Every twig a fork of snow, every leaf a spoon of light. The air smells of mountains.
At the burn, gallop of whisky-amber water falters on a spangled bank. I dip away. There is no singing. A sudden squall and high above, pine-masts creak, flex like wheat. Roots hold firm: wind barred by every strut and keel of branch and trunk. I would crawl inside a hollow stump shawled in cobwebs and lichen until the thaw. My bones
are sleet.
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Each Swan-white crystal,
plume of Goose-grey sky; snowfall’s
quiet weight of grace.
For book festivals and poetry events, Small Wood is available as a complete performance comprising 12, monthly, Haibun and 3 original songs, all woven together with guitar instrumentals. Spoken text and song lyrics written and performed by Andrea Turner. Music adapted, composed and performed by award-winning musician Tom Richardson. There is also an option to include original paintings as part of the stage set.
Audience Feedback: The delicate guitar, powerful voice, charged words and ethereal paintings all in one space create something really special. Callum.
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Totally evoked all the natural elements of the wood, loved it. Jeff and Rachel.
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Exquisitely beautiful. Judith W.
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A gorgeous blend of poetry, music, and art. Andrea and Tom really took us on a spiritual, visual, and linguistic journey through the woods with their evocative poetry and music. Loved it! Karen H.
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andreaturnerarts@gmail.com. Tel:07846048680