The Bristol and Bath Railway Path: An Ecopoetic Sound Collaboration

Abstract

An ecopoetic sound piece produced in response to the Bristol and Bath Railway Path, UK.

这是一篇创作来回应英国布里斯托与沐浴铁道路径的生态声音诗作。

Una pieza ecopoética de sonido producida como respuestas a la ruta de la Compañía Ferroviaria Bristol y Bath, del Reino Unido.

• Bristol and Bath Railway Path
• ecopoetry
• green gentrification
• green infrastructure

• 布里斯托与沐浴铁道路径
• 生态诗
• 绿色贵族化
• 绿色基础建设<

• Compañía Ferroviaria Bristol y Bath
• ecopoesía
• aburguesamiento verde
• infraestructura verde

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL

The ecopoetic sound piece produced in response to the Bristol and Bath Railway Path can be accessed on the publisher’s website (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2016.1273076).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank those who gave us feedback on the ecopoem during the 2016 Landscaping Change conference at Bath Spa University, the anonymous GeoHumanities reviewers for their constructive comments, and Tim Cresswell for his handling of the submission.

Notes

1. The 2.4 million trips a year figure was compiled by Sustrans in 2007, with usage increasing at 10 percent a year. If it has, that would amount to 5.7 million trips a year! See Grimshaw (2008). More reliable recent figures come from the Cycle Flow Census of Residents Cycling to Work 2011. This shows that in 2011 around 1,000 journeys were made each day along the Bristol and Bath Railway Path from Bristol suburbs to the city center. Around 200 users commuted from Bath to Bristol, an inflow of 462 commuters came from North Somerset, and an outflow of 2,214 cyclists from South Gloucester (the greater Bristol suburban area through which the path passes). See Office for National Statistics (2011) and Better by Bike (2015). These figures do not take account of short journeys and leisure usage, which is bound to be higher. Sustrans estimated 6,500 trips in 2008.

2. See Bate (2001), Skinner’s various writings in the ecopoetics journal (2001) and in Jacket2 (http://jacket2.org/commentary/jonathan-skinner, last accessed 2 December 2016), and Tarlo (2007).

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Jonathan Prior

JONATHAN PRIOR is a lecturer in human geography in the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3WA, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. His research interests span environmental and landscape policy, and sonic geography.

Samantha Walton

SAMANTHA WALTON is a lecturer in English Literature: Writing and Environment, at Bath Spa University, Department of English & Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Cultural Industries, Bath, BA2 9BN, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. She is a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award holder, 2015–2017, for the project Landscaping Change, and in 2016 was an Environmental Humanities Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.