Thank you for reading Uncanny Landscapes. This week I've got another episode of the podcast; an interview with artist and writer Camilla Nelson. As you know, this is a free project, both newsletter and podcast. If you're able to support my work through a paid subscription - thank you!! I truly appreciate it. And if you're not, perhaps you can support by telling a friend (or two, or 100) about the Substack's free subscriptions and accompanying podcast.
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Links:
Camilla Nelson’s website and the Becoming workshop
Kyron’s album on LP or as a Download
Dan Fox’s substack re The Size of Art
Other episodes of Uncanny Landscapes podcast
The poetry of a tree - of a mushroom, a birdsong, a lizard's tail - is obvious to most. It is a poetry of breath and movement and song and deep, deep being. It is a poetry from which we humans can learn so, so much - perhaps I should say, in some cases, re-learn; it seems entirely possible that our poetry once was that of the mushroom and the songbird. But how would we go about writing like a mushroom?
Camilla Nelson doesn't necessarily have the answer, but she's making some beautiful work as she tries out different ways of asking the question.
Nelson is an artist whose work explores the materiality of language, particularly in relation to the other-than-human. She's published books - of the well-known sort; words printed on paper - for poetry publishers such as Contraband and Guillemot press. Through her Singing Apple Press she's published books of the less-well-known sort, using objects, images, fragments and concepts from the nonhuman world. And she's made installation art, curated exhibitions, and made the radio programme BECOMING.
Becoming has -itself - become an online workshop that she will lead for the second time this summer, and that I recommend checking out if you're interested in this work.
Uncanny Landscapes podcast: Camilla Nelson