Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas James Keery its sadness

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Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas James Keery its sadnessThe Floodmeadow draws us into a seething pastoral where lightning threatens and thunder gathers, pylons and powerlines hum, and steel framed gates sing out into the wind. In these incantatory pieces, everything is present at once. The landscape, teetering on apocalypse, is characterised by collision and disintegration. Among fragments of memory and history are meticulously journaled observations of the natural world: the moorhen who 'with exaggerated