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    3rd October 2019

    Navigating Diglis

    Written as part of the Places of Poetry project and first published on The Clearing, poet Isabel Galleymore, wrote this poem inspired by the Severn’s upper reaches.

    Navigating Diglis

    This water is like a long tail, swishing.

    This water is running wild and WARNING:

    DO NOT PROCEED then walking

    like a dog beside its owner. This water

    tumbles, twistles STOP! tumbles,

    twistles AT THE LOCKKEEPER’S

    DISCRETION and busies itself

    with water-breathers who are busy themselves;

    some feeding, some resting, some trying

    to swim upstream to release DO NOT

    OPERATE THE LOCK YOURSELF

    some trying to swim upstream to release

    their small, translucent eggs. This water

    tumbles NO ENTRY this water is busy

    with fish trying to DANGER! WEIR!

    trying to swim upstream… Gentle rebels

    in the water’s mud-swish and crystal

    ON GREEN YOU MAY PROCEED.

     

     

    About Places of Poetry

    Places of Poetry is a project which aims to use creative writing to prompt reflection about national and cultural identities by inviting contributions to the website placesofpoetry.org.uk. The project is open to all. 

    About Isabel:

    Isabel Galleymore’s debut pamphlet, Dazzle Ship, was published by Worple Press in 2014 and her work has featured in magazines including Poetry, the London Review of Books and New Poetries VII. Significant Other, published this year, has been shortlisted for the Forward’s Felix Dennis Prize for a first collection. In 2016 she was a poet-in-residence at the Tambopata Research Centre in the Amazon rainforest. She teaches at the University of Birmingham.

     

     

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    A World Heritage Site and the beating heart of the Industrial Revolution, the Ironbridge Gorge is home to some amazing museums that make for an unforgettable experience.

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    Goings on in Worcester

    Worcester is a key location for Unlocking the Severn.
    Two of the River Severn fish passes will be constructed here.

    At Diglis – engineers will install a deep vertical slot fish pass next to the weir.
    This fish pass will also include an innovative underwater viewing gallery for monitoring the fish and providing a whole new perspective on life beneath the water.
    We are also restoring a Victorian workshop on Diglis Island to provide a place for learning and exhibitions.

    At Bevere – a 100m bypass-channel will be introduced with blocks and a shallow enough gradient for shad to swim around the weir.

    Coming Up:
    – Our next information event on Diglis Island – due to take place in July – details to be confirmed nearer the time.
    – Exhibitions and activities will take place at The Hive – including children’s activities during Easter holidays and a photography exhibition in August 2019
    – Places of Poetry workshops in July 2019.

    View of Worcester from Diglis Island

    Goings on in Shrewsbury

    Shrewsbury is a town which has grown within a dramatic loop of the River Severn.

    Volunteers have helped us investigate the Shropshire Archives here for insights into how the towns history relates to the river, and how what records of shad we can find of shad they used to migrate all the way to Shrewsbury and beyond.

    In 2020, an Unlocking the Severn Exhibition will be installed at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery.

    Goings on in Tewkesbury

    Tewkesbury is an important location for monitoring shad as the Upper Lode Weir on the Severn Ham, is the only place on the River Severn you can easily observe shad, as they swim over a notch in the weir.

    You can join our people-powered science project at the riverside in May. Find Out More

     

    Goings on in Gloucester

    In Gloucester we have partnered with the National Waterways Museum run by the Canal and River Trust.

    In 2020 an exhibition about Unlocking the Severn will be brought to the National Waterways Museum.

    In the meantime, you can come and meet members of the project team and find out more Unlocking the Severn at the Gloucester Tall Ships & Adventure Festival on the second May bank holiday weekend: 25 – 27 May.

     

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