The Stanza Stones - Mist Stone at Nab Hill Oxenhope
Channel: Robert John Kerr
Date: 2020-05-24

Stanza Stones is a collaboration between imove, Ilkley Literature Festival, Simon Armitage and Pennine Prospects.
The Stanza Stones Walk
An Alternative devised by Mick Melvin. A fifty mile upland walk from Marsden to Ilkley visiting the six Stanza Stones carved with poems written by Simon Armitage.

‘Mist’ is one of six poems, on the theme of water, all carved in stone, and located on moorland in the South Pennines area of West Yorkshire.

This vlog describes my walk, past cairns and old quarry workings, to the ‘The Mist Stone’, high and remote above the village of Oxenhope.

MIST
The Mist Stone
Who does it mourn? What does it mean, such
nearness, gathering here on high ground
while your back was turned, drawing its
net curtains around? Featureless silver screen, mist
is water in its ghost state, all inwardness,
holding its milky breath, veiling the pulsing machines
of great cities under your feet, walling you
into these moments, into this anti-garden
of gritstone and peat. Given time the edge of
your being will seep into its fibreless fur;
You are lost, adrift in hung water
and blurred air, but you are here.


Equipment used to make this vlog:
Lumix g9 Camera
Panasonic 8-18mm wide lens
Peak Design Capture Clip
Rode Video Micro Mic
Manfrotto Pixi Mini Tripod
Manfrotto X Pro Monopod
Atlas Athlete Backpack
Edited using :
Adobe Premiere Pro