See Steve Whittaker's review of the Little Toller anthology of nature and place 'Going to Ground', including my own essay, 'Heritage'.
"And in another sense, Graham Mort’s poetic and profoundly affecting re-envisioning of the Yorkshire Dales performs a similar ministry for those held close in memorial harness. A psycho-geography of place and an acceptance of the fallibility of powers of recall, Mort’s journey obliges the past into the present, incorporating the hills, the old mine workings and the iconography of personal history in the rendering of a changeful continuum. His reading of the transition of life in the fixed point of landscape is eloquent:
‘We’ve changed nature for sure, or our nature is change. Tribalism, imperial force, the power of market forces, new technologies, free-trade, flexible labour markets. I see the ghostly miners of Swaledale in this future. Instead of knitting, they’re texting as they walk, their progress lit by tiny screens that glimmer in pre-dawn dusk.’ (‘Heritage’)"
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