WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.730 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.730 --> 00:00:08.140 align:middle line:84% Thank you, Wendy, Tyler, Rebecca, [INAUDIBLE]. 00:00:08.140 --> 00:00:10.540 align:middle line:84% it's a real honor, and pleasure, and very moving 00:00:10.540 --> 00:00:13.930 align:middle line:90% for me to be back here. 00:00:13.930 --> 00:00:17.680 align:middle line:84% It's also my honeymoon this trip. 00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:22.660 align:middle line:84% And better ways to live for sure. 00:00:22.660 --> 00:00:26.620 align:middle line:84% The poetry and the sunshine, but especially 00:00:26.620 --> 00:00:30.730 align:middle line:84% the community that I found here each time I've come, 00:00:30.730 --> 00:00:33.460 align:middle line:84% and that Daisy, and my wife and I have found this time 00:00:33.460 --> 00:00:35.150 align:middle line:90% has been very special-- 00:00:35.150 --> 00:00:38.770 align:middle line:84% and the sense of meeting and conversation. 00:00:38.770 --> 00:00:43.780 align:middle line:84% So I hope that I can add a small amount of-- 00:00:43.780 --> 00:00:47.050 align:middle line:84% a dollop, as we would say back home-- a dollop to that 00:00:47.050 --> 00:00:51.590 align:middle line:84% and that you'll all feel free to ask some questions. 00:00:51.590 --> 00:00:55.120 align:middle line:84% I'm just going to read from two long poems tonight. 00:00:55.120 --> 00:00:59.200 align:middle line:84% The first of the poems has a local association, which 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:01.660 align:middle line:90% is why I wanted to read it. 00:01:01.660 --> 00:01:07.390 align:middle line:84% And the second will give you a taste of my bioregion, which 00:01:07.390 --> 00:01:12.400 align:middle line:84% is currently struggling under snow, which happens every year, 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:18.070 align:middle line:84% and every year it struggles with the fact that it snowed again. 00:01:18.070 --> 00:01:21.766 align:middle line:84% The first piece is called Global Oracle, 00:01:21.766 --> 00:01:24.920 align:middle line:90% a work of prophetic science. 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:27.430 align:middle line:84% Are you doing OK with hearing me? 00:01:27.430 --> 00:01:28.360 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:01:28.360 --> 00:01:30.880 align:middle line:90% Are we all right with this? 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:33.160 align:middle line:90% --get used to. 00:01:33.160 --> 00:01:33.660 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:01:33.660 --> 00:01:37.660 align:middle line:90% 00:01:37.660 --> 00:01:40.240 align:middle line:84% Most of this poem was actually written, 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:44.830 align:middle line:84% no pun intended, in Oracle, thanks to Gary and Laura, 00:01:44.830 --> 00:01:48.670 align:middle line:84% who's shyly at the back, who most wonderfully hosted 00:01:48.670 --> 00:01:52.196 align:middle line:84% me and gave me time and space to write. 00:01:52.196 --> 00:01:57.220 align:middle line:84% It exists as a book and a work of art. 00:01:57.220 --> 00:01:59.380 align:middle line:90% And the book has drawings in it. 00:01:59.380 --> 00:02:04.870 align:middle line:84% And it also exists as a podcast recorded by Chris Watson, who's 00:02:04.870 --> 00:02:06.910 align:middle line:90% a wonderful sound recordist. 00:02:06.910 --> 00:02:09.220 align:middle line:84% Many of you will know his work actually, 00:02:09.220 --> 00:02:12.310 align:middle line:84% because he does a lot of the sound on the David Attenborough 00:02:12.310 --> 00:02:14.170 align:middle line:90% documentaries. 00:02:14.170 --> 00:02:16.480 align:middle line:84% And a lot of my work exists, in that sense, 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:20.230 align:middle line:84% in different forms that come and meet and have 00:02:20.230 --> 00:02:23.030 align:middle line:90% a conversation with each other. 00:02:23.030 --> 00:02:30.850 align:middle line:84% It's a poem about bees and about prophecy. 00:02:30.850 --> 00:02:34.690 align:middle line:84% And it takes us from the Oracle at Delphi to the Navstar 00:02:34.690 --> 00:02:39.310 align:middle line:84% satellites, which make our mobile phones and car 00:02:39.310 --> 00:02:41.410 align:middle line:90% navigation systems work. 00:02:41.410 --> 00:02:45.700 align:middle line:84% So you are all familiar with that technology. 00:02:45.700 --> 00:02:47.680 align:middle line:84% And I'm not going to explain anything else, 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:52.290 align:middle line:84% but I'll be very glad to answer questions at the end.