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John Challis
The sun reveals a spider’s web capable of holding what’s greater than its maker, a canopy as stable as the tent we stitch into the ground far away from any trail, our nowhere home, anywhere, as solid as this web that stays and shapes the air.
John Challis is the author of The Resurrectionists and The Green Parcel, both published by Bloodaxe Books. He was poet-in-residence at Seaton Delaval Hall, a National Trust property, which produced Hallsong, a pamphlet of poems, and a film collaboration with filmmaker Christo Wallers. He teaches at York St John University.
