An exploration of myth and memory, landscape and personal experience through parallel paths of poetry and visual art. A conversation where common themes are reflected on. Images crystallised from stories that ruminate on life’s brief span, the transient and intangible.

Cyclops concludes the trilogy of David Attwooll and Andrew Walton’s collaborations. The other two titles are Ground Work (2014) and Otmoor (2016), also published by Black Poplar.

Black Poplar (2018) - £10

Otmoor is an area of wetland just north-east of Oxford that seems strangely wild and remote. An artist who grew up there and a poet spent eighteen months exploring the moor, through close observation en plein air and on muddy walks, and through subsequent abstraction. Here are aspects of Otmoor’s past and present, memories and myths, real and imagined stories and images.

This project follows Andrew Walton’s and David Attwooll’s previous collaboration on Oxford’s Port Meadow, published in Ground Work: Twelve Walks (Black Poplar 2014)

Black Poplar (2016) - £6

Ground Work is the product of monthly walks through the course of a year in Port Meadow and Wolvercote Common, an area of uncultivated floodplain bordering Oxford and the Thames.

This collaboration between a poet and a painter explores different aspects of the character and history of the place; improvises on conversations and memories of two old friends; and most of all responds to the chance events, light, and weather as the seasons change.

Black Poplar (2014) - £5

The Sound Ladder features war stories and resurrections, Cornwall and Mexico, demonstrations and school dances, refugees and book fairs, the natural world and the surrealism of the Internet, elegy, anger, and humour. And music: these poems listen to what the rhythm section is doing beneath the surface of specific places and events, the beat a few strata down.

David Attwooll was a winner of the 2013 Poetry Business competition with Surfacing, Ground Work (2014) is a poet’s calendar exploring, with the artist Andrew Walton, the topography, history and changing weather and light in a floodplain bordering Oxford and the Thames. The Sound Ladder contains poems from these pamphlets as well as more recent work.

Two Rivers Press (2015) - £8.95

Surfacing was a winner in the 2012/13 Book Pamphlet Competition, chosen by Simon Armitage.

David Attwooll lives in Oxford where he works in publishing and plays drums in a street band. His poems have been published in various magazines (including Smith’s Knoll, Magma, The Rialto, and The Reader) and a selection is in Carcanet’s Oxford Poets 2013 Anthology (published in June 2013).

Smith/Doorstop Books (2013) - £5