Nelson presents A Yarn Er Narrative celebrating the myriad sounds that make up a word. Only when they begin to fall apart do we realise quite how beautiful, complex and intricate woods/words really are.

A Yarn Er Narrative (soundwork, 30 mins)

A Yarn Er Narrative started life as ‘paper trail’ - an installation of approximately twenty site specific pages and numerous paper fragments, constructed out of and in response to those particular sites for Karen Pearson’s outdoor exhibition 'Assemblage: Narratives in the Managed Landscape' in Yarner Wood in Dartmoor (Devon, 2012). Its later stages of decay were exhibited in in Amy Cutler’s Time, the Deer, is in the Wood of Hallaig in St John’s Belfry, London, as ‘The Forest Writes Itself’ (2013). The full details of ‘how to make A Yarn Er Narrative’ forms the centre page of the poetry collection published by Contraband Books (2019).

A Yarn Er Narrative now exists in print (Contraband, 2019), in soundwork and in live performance. In print, you the book can be read from both ends. One half of the book includes visual treatments of the composting text. The other half presents the poems in standard print. The soundwork reads the process of physical decay (visualised in the images of the composting texts) through the printed poems to create an audible rendering of literary decay. A Yarn Er Narrative (soundwork) celebrates the myriad sounds that make up a word. Only when they begin to fall apart do we realise quite how beautiful, complex and intricate woods/words really are.

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Part of Co.Lab Sounds, curated by Marley Treloar www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/colab