FIELD RAMBLE

ALL of this unreal time

Field Ramble with Max Porter

Published by Rough Trade / Artwork Office of Craig

The pod is back this weekend with a double header. We look back at the publication of  All of This Unreal Time by the inimitable Rough Trade Books with Mr Max Porter.  Described in the foreword as ‘a gift written in friendship, to be handed on,’ it is an elusive, ever moving torrent of apology, love and gratitude. A response to the countless human and non-human lives that intersect with and impact on our own.

Written during the first, weird summer months of the pandemic, the piece blossomed into a collaboration commissioned by Manchester Film festival. Directed by Aoife McArdle, it features Max’s friend and long time collaborator Cillian Murphy as Unreal Time’s ‘everyman’ as well as an incredible score by Aaron & Bryce Dessner and Jon Hopkins. 

Part One - available from Friday - Wasteful writing, hardcore forgiveness & confessional booths.

As with all the best Rambles the conversation soon went elsewhere. 

Part Two - Bank Holiday Monday - prison writing groups, embroided life jackets & visiting the West bank with Palfest. 

‘Strange and Beautiful.’ The Guardian

Books mentioned in conversation 

The Gift - Lewis Hyde 

Essayism - Brian Dillon

On Forgiveness - Richard Holloway 

Is A River Alive? - Robert Macfarlane

We Need New Stories - Nesrine Malik

Also mentioned

www.pennedup.org.uk

www.palfest.org

@dillonscrossproject

FIELD RAMBLE with MAX PORTER

Thanks as ever to Huw Marc Bennett and Ian Hawgood for the use of their wonderful music.

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Music Used:

Episode One

Y Gwydd Huw Marc Bennett (Intro)

I Don’t Think We Belong Here Ian Hawgood (Outro)

Episode Two

Departures Ian Hawgood (Intro)

Hazel and Gold Daniel Avery (Outro)