The Hill
Nighttime on Still Waters
English - December 19, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Places & Travel narrowboat canal inland waterways liveaboard weather natural world elements nature night Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
As tonight’s full moon is shrouded by the fog that rolls down the hill and curls and drifts upon the water join us aboard the NB Erica as we fall once more in love with the commonplace and overlooked things. The hill may not be named, or even be awarded a contour of its own, but it nevertheless is the place of gentle and unremarkable miracles.
Journal entry:
“17th December, Friday
It didn’t take long
For those three years of growth
To lie cut upon the ground.
Penny sniffs the torn and broken stems.
I step over teasel heads
Trodden into the mud. “
Episode Information
In this episode I read:
Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem ‘Pied Beauty’ from Poems and Prose published by Penguin Classics (1985).
Tim Hennen’s (2013) ‘What the Plants Say’ from his Darkness Sticks to Everything published by Copper Canyon Press.
I also read a quotation from Arthur Machen’s (1924) The London Adventure: Or the art of wandering. Republished by Tartrus Press.
General Details
In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.
Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.
Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.
All other audio recorded on site.
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