This short essay on the image-word poetic collaborations between Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin is based on a talk I gave at the 2017 Art.Earth creative summit in Dartington, In Other Tongues, subsequently published by Dark Mountain as part of a six-instalment Blog series I edited for them. All six of these posts, which you can get to by scrolling in either direction from this one, flowed out of talks and performances given at In Other Tongues. I'm especially pleased to have this published as an online essay because this format's enabled me embed an 11m clip from Noel Channan's unforgettable recording and photo essay of Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin in conversation about their work together on Crow and Cave Birds.
Illustration for Cave Birds - Leonard Baskin