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Field Ramble
Field Ramble with Max Porter (part 1)
ALL OF THIS UNREAL TIME
Published by Rough Trade
Back this weekend with a double header, we turn to All of This Unreal Time by Mr Max Porter. Described in the foreword as ‘a gift, written in friendship’ 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
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