Collaborative Project with Poet Andrew Jeffrey

An exploration of the Moss Valley on the border of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Our series of walks tracing the path of the Moss took us into a dynamic and varied landscape. Following footpaths interupted by stiles of many styles. This led to an investigation of the ethics of accessibility within this environment and globally.

British Standard British BS5709:2006 (BSI 2006 – since updated) gives eight rules governing how accessible a style should be which led to a series of 8 poems and associated stiles relating to each of the following themes:

• Least Restrictive Option

• Reasonableness

• Maneuvering Space

• Location of Structures

• Ongoing

• Ground

• Barbed wire, etc.

• Protrusions

An article contextualising and describing my collaboration with poet and creative writing academic Andrew Jeffrey has been published in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.