Richard Skelton spent nearly half a decade living in a small valley high in the Furness hills of Cumbria, in northern England. When not writing or composing music, most of his days were spent beating the valley's bounds, exploring its network of paths, streams and walls. Beyond the Fell Wall is a distillation of his observations and thoughts about this particular patch of land. It is a poetic enquiry into the life of an seemingly inanimate landscape - its otherwise unheard melodies and unseen movements. It considers both vast geological epochs and brief moments of intimacy, and in turn it asks us to consider sentience in all things, whether animal, vegetable or mineral. At the heart of the book is the fell wall itself: vast and serpentine - a vessel for the lives, voices and myths of the landscape.

About the Author
Richard Skelton is a musician and artist from Lancashire in northern England. Over the past decade he has produced a diverse and acclaimed body of work, including films, exhibitions, pamphlets, books and albums of music that have been compared to Brian Eno and Arvo Part. All his work is informed by landscape, evolving from sustained immersion in specific environments and wide-ranging research, incorporating toponymy and language, ecology and geology, folklore and myth. His books include Landings (2009), Moor Glisk (2012) and Limnology (2012).

Reviews
Beyond the Fell Wall is a graceful meditation upon the relationship between landscape, language and sound - The Spectator



Book Information
ISBN 9781908213587
Author Richard Skelton
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Little Toller Books
Publisher Little Toller Books