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The Ear Fields

by Kirsten Irving

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Part of the Soundscape Poetry Project Album.

I often take a phrase or fragment from another text and ricochet off it in a different direction altogether. The title for this poem came from the short story “The Meat Fields” by Stuart Pantoll, which was also about a dystopian future, but one in which the focus was on the relationship between a boy and his companion robot. Here, I took the idea of the fields growing strange crops and made the setting itself into a weapon. I grew up running around fields in Lincolnshire, seeing them as places of fun and escape, so it was enjoyably uncanny to reframe them as a source of fear and surveillance.

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released June 1, 2021
Written and performed by Kirsten Irving
Recorded at Kirsten’s house, East Dulwich, London, December 2018
Sound Design by Robin Peters
Produced by Culture Recordings
Mixed by Culture Recordings & Dom Mitchison
Mastered by Pete Maher

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Kirsten Irving London, UK

Kirsten Irving is a poet and voice actor living and working in London. She co-runs collaborative press Sidekick Books with Jon Stone, and has edited anthologies on subjects as diverse as robots, birds and video games. Her own writing has been published by Salt, translated into Russian and Spanish, and thrown out of a helicopter. ... more

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