Sites and sounds of THE SLEEPING PLACE

View from the chalk ridge just above burial site

In this post, I collect together some micro-videos and field recordings to accompany the text of THE SLEEPING PLACE (available now from Guillemot Press https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/susie-campbell-the-sleeping-place)

First up, a field recording of walking onto some loose chalk excavated from new house foundations currently being laid on the site of THE SLEEPING PLACE (the image is of a large chalk flint also dug up by the house builders). I am fascinated by the way the loose chalk sounds like a beach, almost as though the chalk holds a sonic record of its own history.

And here are a series of micro-videos of short excerpts from THE SLEEPING PLACE read in situ:

STONES

GRAVES

SIGNS

And a field recording made walking along the chalk ridge above the burial site (see image at top of post and black and white image below)

There will be opportunities to hear live readings from THE SLEEPING PLACE on the following dates (details to be announced on social media @susiecampbell (twitter) @susiecampbellwrites (IG)