Richard Skelton spent nearly half a decade living in a small valley high in the Furness hills of Cumbria, in northern Engl&. When not writing or composing music, most of his days were spent beating the valley`s bounds, exploring its network of paths, streams & walls. Beyond the Fell Wall is a distillation of his observations & thoughts about this particular patch of l&. It is a poetic enquiry into the life of an seemingly inanimate landscape
- its otherwise unheard melodies & unseen movements. It considers both vast geological epochs & brief moments of intimacy, & 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 & serpentine
- a vessel for the lives, voices & myths of the landscape.