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Stranger in the Mask of a Deer

Richard Skelton

"This is an incredibly moving, essential meditation on where we have come from, where we are, and where we are headed."

Kerri Ní Dochartaigh
 

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative ranging from the present to the Late-Upper Palaeolithic, when the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans and animals returning from the greater continent after the Ice Age.


Richard Skelton began this book-length poem many years ago with the intention of exploring the history of Britain’s landscape, only for the text to transform into a kind of literary seance, involving both human and other-than-human voices. Its transforming power lies in the accumulative magic of the word as ritual. Skelton’s is a mesmeric lyric, probing the edges of consciousness towards a place where ‘there are always presences / always inherences / things beyond sight.’

 

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Please note: due to the recent change in tax regulations, we are currently unable to ship to EU countries.
paperback
166 pages
ISBN 9781908058843
Published 21 June 2021
Cover design: Zigmunds Lapsa

Reviews

This is an incredibly moving, essential meditation on where we have come from, where we are, and where we are headed.
Kerri Ní Dochartaigh

I've been submerging myself into this book slowly, like a dip into an icy mountain pool. It's unique, intriguing, transporting.
Becky Wragg Sykes

A mesmeric, conceptual book-length poem about deep history, time, life & land.
SJ Fowler

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer is a sustained, book-length exploration of the boundless metaphoric landscapes and symbolically rich deep-time of the mythical unconscious.
Peter Mark Adams, Paralibrum

A truly remarkable long poem, unlike any other I know ... the impact is extraordinary and, to me, irresistible, with a prophetic pulse to the verse that demands to be heard, even as it explores great silences of time and space, and the inner mysteries of identity and death.
James McGonigal, Painted, spoken

Thoughtful and thought-provoking ... a dream-like imagining of the end of the last Ice Age.
Current Archaeology

Utterly immersive, book-length poem, voicing of human and non-human consciousnesses that reach back to the Late-Upper Paleolithic.
Kimberly Campanello

About the author

Richard Skelton is a British artist. His work focuses on landscape and other-than-human studies. Between 2005 and 2011 he ran Sustain-Release, a private press music label dedicated to publishing his own landscape-oriented recordings. Since 2009 he has been co-director of the multi-media publishing house Corbel Stone Press, with the Canadian poet Autumn Richardson. Together they curate the biannual journal of eco-poetics and esoteric literature, Reliquiae. He is also founding member of the Notional Research Group for Cultural Artefacts and director of the Centre for Alterity Studies.

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