Heart of Darkness Reading

Heart of Darkness from Anna Falcini on Vimeo.

Please click on the link to go to the reading of Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness reading

http://vimeo.com/26120640


Please go to the above link to hear a short reading from Heart of Darkness.

Some notes, the beginnings of a poem

London Gateway development on the estuary at Stanford-le-Hope and Coryton
distant trucks viewable through the haze of the windblown radio-song

workmen hanging like puppets from the pylon,

whose newly painted golden legs stretch out across the field

"3.5 million container movements a year, 3,000 metres of quay"

the birdsong & pylon crackle & lumpen broke tarmac-cracked roads

- plastic wrapped notes of condolence, discarded socks and tractor tyre,

warming in the same sun

"the development is not in accordance with national and international conservation policy and will adversely effect local residents with noise, traffic and pollution"

light on the mudflats - 25 years older, 

familiar graffitti and the untouched marsh,

windy emptiness of the coastline

a place where people go - inhabit a second silence,

nearby Canvey Wick, highest levels of biodiversity in Western Europe

"don't worry - they took all the wildlife and sent it over to Kent."

Rick Goldsmith July 2nd updated July 11th 2011

It's Been Awhile

I feel like I've been strangely silent on this blog, and I guess that's not the form with a blog but I'd just like to put up a few photographs based on Anna's side of the estuary and post a short film that was shot on mine. Film to follow.