Feather, Leaf, Bark, and Stone

This is poetry reimagined by a visual artist; words transformed back into their original function as images. Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone is a book of poems and meditations with a difference. More than a hundred short texts have been typed onto small squares of gold leaf, then photographed. These pieces are arranged in a sequence which culminates in a glorious final section made up of texts typed directly onto leaves, bark and feathers. This book is full of the light and wind that fills the Pembrokeshire coast where it was crafted, each page anchored to the landscape by the mechanical rhythm of Jackie’s antique typewriters. The result is a collection of individual artworks to be both looked at and read. Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone confirms Jackie Morris as an artist and writer with limitless creativity and expanding power.