Festival Park
‘The Hidden Green’
‘The Tiny Little Pinecones Park’
‘Rocket Park’
a rain of may-flower
Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk
bulrush (cattails)
the dry burn can’t fake flowing water
rushes
the peace post and the orange flutes
“may peace prevail on earth”
crows are circumnavigators
the rocket is ready
‘Iona’s Buttercups’
orange-tipped butterfly
common carder bee – typically Glasgow (ginger)
chaffinch
blue tit
robin
blackbird (trill trill)
magpie (kaak kaak)
long-tail tit (twee twee)
gulls are moving from the coast to the city
“a walk becomes a signature across space”
R.S.R. Fitter, London’s Natural History
Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City
Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire
Louise Welsh, The Cutting Room
I want to be a cowgirl
what’s so wrong with that
Pacific Drive
‘Gull Mura Dora’
‘Seagull Seagully Bit’
‘Seagull Spine’
seagulls sunbathing on the armadillo
‘The Birch Band’
mammoth fodder
distressed fatigued or alligator asphalt
Prince’s Dock
‘I’ve seen land made from the sea’ – Ovid
an odd green place by the old basin
Kevin Lynch, What Time is This Place
Terrell F Dixon, City Wilds
Govan, the wee knowe, or the smithy
a forge seen transformed in the Clydeport crane
round here three-quarters of people live
close to a derelict site
the semaphore signal tower marks an iron margin
between times: the tended and the wild
‘The Rickle’
‘Ozymandias’ Stones’
‘two vast and trunkless legs
of stone stand in the desert’
Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain
Bradley L Garret & Phil Smith, Alice’s Derives in Devonshire
a puffer boat to Struay
Mairi Hedderwick, Katie Morag Delivers the Mail
jackdaw
bramble
thistle
docken
nettle
‘what’s that?’ – ‘It’s dog shit’
Whitefield Road
ragwort on the front of the old town hall
burdock
buddleia
Richard Mabey, Food for Free
Richard Mabey, The Unofficial Countryside
at the junction of Whitefield Rd and Summertown Rd
hipsterweed
razor wire in the ivy
a view of Ibrox from the masons yard
‘The Stoneyard Boneyard’
‘The Stonebed’
a house sparrows nest
in the twisty straggle tangled on the pole
161 with flowers growing out of it
Ibrox Street
Midlock Street
marestail
Kirkwood Street
J.G. Ballard, Concrete Island
‘a forgotten island of rubble and weeds’
the roar of the motorway
verges a narrow broken space
between civilization and wildness
forget-me-not
welsh poppy
sticky willy
knotweed
bluebell
I want to rest on the mattress
Dee wants to bounce on it
Plantation Park
‘Park of Forgetfulness’
the text is a collaborative composition by everyone who took part on the walk, derived from conversations, readings and maps, and collaged by Alec Finlay
photographs: Mhairi Law
The Walking Library (Dee Heddon & Misha Myers)
Supported by Festival 2018 and the University of Glasgow
Thank you to RSPB
