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Science of the Sea Charged by moonlight An invisible loom weaves Silver yarn into dark waters, Creates and holds the not now And yet forever of this planet In a fragile weft of quantum waves. Where the star shimmering sea Meets the night’s horizon Tales are told of deep space events, Bright numbers scattered across the oceans Their functions so subtle they Seem to us the magic of life.
John Porter lives in the Lake District, birthplace of the English Romantic movement, with his English wife. Both their daughters have settled in the western United States. John has climbed extensively for over 60 years, including new routes in the Himalaya and the Andes. He has been President of the Alpine Club and in 1980 founded the Kendal Mountain Film Festival. His book One Day as a Tiger won the grand prize at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in 2014 and has been published in seven languages. His current projects include a new book of poems titled A Path of Shadows (Little Peak Press, 2022), which he will present at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in November 2022, and a memoir.
FALL 2022
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THE CONTEMPORARY WEST
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