J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, and researcher working across live performance, print, and digital media. Her digital writing has been presented in journals, galleries, museums, and festivals around the world. This is a Picture of Wind, a weather poem for phones, won the Dot Award for Digital Literature 2015. Her hybrid print and web-based work The Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. A book by the same name was published by Uniformbooks in 2017. Her debut poetry collection, An Ocean of Static, published by Penned in the Margins, was highly commended for the Forward Prize 2018.
Events
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a ria
a rise
a river runs
green in the shadow
of a steep wooded bank
deep roots tangle in dense strata
the rucked sheets of the Dartmouth beds
the ancient stone of the Lower Devonian
a dark strip between water and leaf
slate slants askance at the falling tide
mist eats green leaves alive
cloud shadows the far shore
counterfeits the coast
the river rolls out its yardage
bolts of shot silk shiver silver
pocked pewter
puckering grey
rain like we haven’t seen for some time
stains the parched fields green
pummelled plums fall
purple eggs from the sky