Head of the Heathen

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Poem set to music.
The poem is inspired by Pen-y-Ghent, the hill in the Yorkshire Dales.

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Head of the Heathen
(Pen-y-Ghent)

The dry-stone wall runs on f'ever and a day
over sleet-drenched pens

like a long, hard squint at the horizon-line
from a seat of ease, the ground

dips an' rolls in awakening colours
a mirage of land far out

on some uncharted sea, peat-black hollows,
moor-grass on every crest,

but days are scraped back to a few good hours
to traverse meadows an' tend

to the livestock, keeping an eye on the blaze
of sky to the west. Deep country:

spills, rakes, plunges an' trends,
the waters wonderous cold,

singing bored caves in the bubbling
darkness through millstone grit,

carboniferous limestone, to burst from earth
at Brants Gill Head. These blokes

knaa well how to cling ont' turf when the sky
decides to swallow 'em whole.

They’re muttered superstitions for what
it’ wurth, indecipherable oghams

scratched on a menhir. Serious dominoes
clacking in the bar beside the hearth's

throbbing embers, half-downed pints, eyes
high soaring buzzards surveying scrublands.

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released February 5, 2022
Poem written and performed by Bob Beagrie
Music by SJ Forth

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Project Lono Middlesbrough, UK

Project Lono is a collaborative collective of musicians and poets experimenting with audio scapes that blend verse, storytelling, song, music and live and recorded sound effects.

The Shrouded Republic has been created by Bob Beagrie, Sara Dennis, Kev Howard, Peter Lagan, John Dunleavy and SJ Forth.

Band picture by Kev Howard.
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