West Cumbria Mining

<p>The politics of fuel laid bare...</p><p>Walk at dusk with the ghosts of John Clare Orwell and Chatwin into the contours of a censored past and a rapidly decaying present. A cost of living crisis that has been controlling and crippling the edgelands for decades.</p><p>Developing the deep research and emotion of <em>Boundary Songs</em> the focus here is on the fractured terrain of Whitehaven and echoes the restless narrator of Sebald's <em>Rings of Saturn</em> who connects a paper-laden office with a distant childhood 'to gather into itself the pallor of the fading light'.</p>