2019 has been the year of poetry and Lorna Doone, as it is 150 years since the publication of R D Blackmore's Exmoor novel. As part of the celebrations, Mr Jelley has engaged eight Exmoor schools in poetry writing and responding to the landscape and weather of the moors.

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The school workshops were fully funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and designed to culminate in location specific hydrophobic poetry (!)

 

In short, selected poems from the workshops were laser etched into stencils, these are then placed on the pavement where a non-toxic water repellent spray is then applied.

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Once the fluid is dry it becomes invisible and only shows up when the stone is made wet, so the poetry reveals in the rain.

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The poems were now installed at the Museum of Somerset, in the Castle Courtyard and also Monmouth Terrace in Dulverton. 

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The installation only lasts a month or two and these were installed in July although previous installations have lasted much longer.