The narratives I want to read are marginal, not mainstream: the voices we don’t get to hear, the unrecorded and undiscovered stories of how people navigate life. I am a margin-dweller too, and I’m currently exploring the edgelands between worlds; those that connect and divide both our experiences and our geographical areas.
Using themes of placeness, dereliction, psychogeography, the othered and brutalised body, power systems, counter-mapping, belonging and community, and rural and urban walking - and stitching my own marginal memories together with the stories and wisdoms I find in the archives of great thinkers and collectors such as Maria Popova and Richard Rohr, plus national and local archives - I am starting this collection in an experimental attempt to make sense of The Edgelands. Subscribe here to receive my writing directly into your inbox, for eight weeks.
I will release one post per week on a Thursday, beginning February 24th 2022. Themes will include:
Alleyways and borough boundaries
Psychogeography, thin places & otherworlds
Asylums: a letter to my uncle
The body as an edgeland
Nuclear borderlands and Cumbrian homelands
Land, harvesting, food growing spaces & communal living
Hostels and train tracks: transitory bodies
Hacking hospital maps
After that, I am not sure. I just hope that you come on a journey with me for eight weeks to begin with, at least. Maybe you’ll stay for whatever comes next, too.
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