Wicker (by Chris Jones)

Three haiku and two tanka commissioned by the Off the Shelf literature festival in 2007. The poems were to be blasted into sandstone as part of a new riverside development (work on which appears to have been postponed indefinitely). Read more about the commission (and the full text of the poems) at http://www.urbanwords.org.uk/aplaceforwords/case-study-river-don.php. Recorded near Blonk Street, Sheffield, on the banks of the River Don, 28 September 2008, and included on a limited 3" CD produced for 'The river, the road' poetry walk led by Matthew Clegg and Chris Jones on 1 November 2008. Listen to the full 'The river, the road' audio sequence at The river, the road (by Matthew Clegg and Chris Jones) by Longbarrow Podcasts