Title References

 

“There is Something We Love In Ourselves”
from the poem ‘Taxonomy’ by John Burnside from his collection Light Trap (Cape Poetry)

“The Trembling Moon and the Stars Unfurled”
from the song ‘There She Goes my Beautiful World’ by Nick Cave, from the album ‘Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus’ (Stumm)

Yain, Tain, Eddero, Peddero, Pitts, Tayter
Derived from Ancient British, the language of counting sheep from Wensleydale, Yorkshire

“The Singing Green Stars as our Guide”
from the song ‘Drink Deep’ by Laura Veirs, from the album ‘Saltbreakers’ (Nonesuch)

“Laugh When All the Sky is Coming Down”
from the song ‘Quiet and Slow Time’ by John Cunningham, from the album ‘Homeless House’ (les Disques Mange Tout)

“I Kept on Falling Like a Paper on Fire the Poem on it Disappearing”
from the poem ‘Trap Door’ by Vitezslaw Nezval, from the collection ‘The Thunder Mutters, 101 Poems for the Planet’ (Faber)

“And Flocking Birds Sewing the Sky”
from the song ‘Something’s Gone Awry’ by Alela Diane, from the album ‘Pirate’s Gospel’ (Rough Trade)

“A Night Where Beauty Loitered and the Sun Took it’s Time Setting, as if it, too, Didn’t Want to Miss Anything”
from the novel ‘The Highest Tide’ by Jim Lynch (Bloomsbury)

I Can Live Without Seeing All the Places of the World
Inspired by lyric from the song ‘Don’t Touch Anything’ by Robert Forster, from the album ‘The Evangelist’ (Tuition)

“Now I Am Versed in Silence, my Throat Hurts, not from Yelling but from Holding Back”
from the song ‘Black My Eye’ by Death Vessel, from the album ‘Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us’ (Sub Pop)

“So Silently I Couldn’t Hear It”
from the poem ‘Cage of Small Birds’ by Phyllis April King, from the album ‘Jammy Smears’ by Ivor Cutler (Virgin)

“One Sigh No Heavier Than A Feather”
from the poem ‘A Marriage’ by R.S. Thomas

"It Sings Itself Just Like A Song"
from the song 'Shut Me Up' by Joe Henry, from the album 'Civilians' (Anti)

“She Assigned Names to her Favourites, and then Abandoned the Names and Assigned Them Sizes, and Abandoned the Sizes and Assigned them Colours”
From the novel ‘The Brief History of the Dead’ by Kevin Brockmeier (John Murray)

Hosianna Mantra
Album title by Popol Vuh (Celestial Harmonies)

“Looming Sorrows”
From the novel ‘Solar’ by Ian McEwan

“Something Deeper Than Shadow”
From the novel ‘Inherent Vice’ by Thomas Pynchon