22/10/2019, 20: 54 'To shining clough': a trans-atlantic ecopoetic call and response: Green Letters: Vol 0, No 0 Page 1 of 17 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14688417.2019.1681288?scroll=top&needAccess=true ! Cart Enter keywords, authors, DOI, ORC Advanced search This Journal ! Journal Latest Articles Green Letters " Studies in Ecocriticism 0 Views 0 CrossRef citations to date 0 Altmetric Articles 'To shining clough': a trans-atlantic ecopoetic call and response & Laura-Gray Street # Anne-Marie Creamer Received 12 Oct 2018, Accepted 22 Sep 2019, Published online: 21 Oct 2019 $ Download citation % https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2019.1681288 ABSTRACT This article discusses how we, a US poet and a UK visual artist, opened an enmeshed space of creative practice in collaborating on a site-speci!c !lm, ‘To Shining Clough’. The !lm’s ground is literally the Peak District’s Longdendale Valley, but it is also, by analogy, the shifting ground inherent in cross-disciplinary practice, particularly that predicated on ecology. As Tim Ingold argues, creative practice is synonymous with doing and making, with the thinking implicit in the doing. In doing together, even if asynchronously, we therefore thought together, even when transatlantically. Our collaboration involved dialogic improvisation and was informed by coincidence. It was also a form of correspondence, of co-responding to each other and to the texture and terrain of the Longdendale Valley. Taking as subject not just a location but the entangled "uxes present, ‘To Shining Clough’ embodies – as process and product – multiple ecopoetic contour lines. KEYWORDS: Ecopoetry, !lm, collaboration, creative process, ecology, place ‘It’s not enough just to observe the world. One also has to sing it. To sing back, to answer the song’. – Freya Mathews, Ardea ! Listen " + & Log in | Register