Edith (the chronicles)
Kotting, Andrew (2016) Edith (the chronicles). Badbloodandsibyl. ISBN 9780956873347
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A book made as part of the Edith project commissioned by Hastings Council for the Root 1066 International Festival with support from the University for the Creative Arts.
The book, published by Badbloodandsibyl and edited by Andrew Kötting, includes both pinhole and 'digital' pinhole photographs by Anonymous Bosch and additional photographs by Iain Sinclair, with essays and texts from David Aylward, Claudia Barton, Anne Caron- Delion, John Clare, Gareth Evans, Jem Finer, Heinrich Heine, Nicholas Johnson, Ben Hopkins, Sarah Lloyd, Kristin O’Donnell, Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair.
To coincide with the release of the film, Edith Walks, the book is being distributed through Home in Manchester, The Lux and The Swedenborg Society.
The film Edith Walks is about a walk from Waltham Abbey to St Leonards-on-Sea documenting a pilgrimage made in memory of Edith Swan Neck, the eleventh-century wife of King Harold II of England. Bits of King Harold's body were brought to Waltham for burial near the High Altar after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and his hand-fast wife Edith Swan Neck is seen cradling him in a remarkable sculpture at Grosvenor Gardens on the seafront in St Leonards. The film reconnects the lovers after 950 years of separation. The 108-mile journey is interspersed with conversation between Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair and Edith Swan Neck, all key elements in the unfolding of the 'story'.
Copies held in UCA Libraries.
Design by Lisa Wrake.
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