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Sedgeford October With Winter Geese

from It All Comes Out In The Wash (album) by Bardonthewire

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Not just a field recording but a recording OF a field as part of a poem performed IN a field in October in Sedgeford in my best Attenborough manner.

The first time I heard the October geese going over when we moved here in 1986, I was alarmed. Never heard anything like it. Now I love the way it connects our skies to the polar north and the fathomless sense of all that sea washing up onto the north Norfolk coast that - as the goose flies - is uninterrupted up the pole and down the other side by any land mass until China.

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Somewhere mellow between

the end of the overblown blackberries

and

the start of the harvested leaves

fused flies

on clinical sills

hint at bleached sun

and

in the hedges

thistle winds to come.

To eyes trained on histrionic heights

of Welsh adolescence,

this stubborn serenity,

these mediaeval colours

are

endlessly reassuring:

a great grey blanket billowing unbroken from the North Pole,

wild chords of geese in its folds;

the flinty, dependable noun

behind mists of adjectives.

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from It All Comes Out In The Wash (album), released November 22, 2019
Written (in the late 80s) and recorded and photographed in and around Sedgeford in the autumn of 2016. A bit of a wild goose chase and trespass (sorry, squire) involved in finally getting wind-free goose recordings- not easy in windblown Norfolk - and it took 20 years to get these. Note the beep of a serendipitous tractor scaring the geese into noisy wing-whirring flight at just the right moment early on. The poem was published in The Rialto poetry magazine in the early 90s.

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Bardonthewire England, UK

Performance poetry with a library card (voice & drum, folk ballads, ghazals, sonnets, beat poems, sound poems, raps) much of it happening 'on the street' or jostling to be heard in the tavern. Researched stories of folk heroes and real folk. History for you. Bardic poetry striving (as all arts do) for the condition of music (from punk though rap to to prog). Visionary lit. for your average Blake. ... more

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