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Off Island is a poem from Natural Burial Ground by Will Burns.
Film by Matthew Shaw & Will Burns.
Narration - Will Burns
Score - Matthew Shaw

“I’ve spent the last couple of years thinking about, and on, islands of various sizes. Thinking about how we live on islands, and how we die on them. I spent a few days on the Scillies and got shown around the passage graves and burial mounds, got the low-down on the flora and fauna, the native, and non-native (whatever that might mean…), the decorative, the locally-specific. The material, somewhat pathetically, and inevitably, became this poem, for which I’m chuffed to say artist, musician, fellow-poet and now world famous stone enthusiast Matthew Shaw has made a short film and musical score. I think this poem, and the film in its own, perhaps more oblique way, touch on many of the themes, thoughts, reflections, feelings and whatever else that have accrued over this last couple of years to make up a new book of poems called Natural Burial Ground. For now, though, here’s ‘Off Island’… “ Will Burns