In this experimental dream-poem a famous European cathedral
literally takes off and travels - as in a Japanese animated film -
calling in at the Sargasso Sea, then the West Mariana Ridge in the
western Pacific, and on to the Transantarctic Mountains. On board
are a small band of people who happen to be in the cathedral when
she takes off, led by a young and bemused cathedral canon. The East
Anglian Fenland - especially as it was in early medieval times -
lies deep within the cathedral's sense of herself and her people as
she travels the globe. But she isn't all local memory; her
twenty-first-century almost-silent Octagon engyn powers her and her
crew on a tour through geological and historic time. In her
newfound freedom the cathedral gets up close and personal with
Archean grey gneiss, discovers eel leptocephali, finds magical
ancient plants in her own transept, and welcomes a stowaway cat
called Mrs Chippy. Drawing on many sources of inspiration,
including Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame, this poem is
surreal, intricate and sometimes comic.
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