The Ground is Singing
Published September 2025
The Ground is Singing is the second issue of The Printing Room, a yearly journal that publishes art writing from Sandwell and the Black Country.
For this issue of The Printing Room artists responded to the natural world through connection to place and locality. The theme of this issue is born out of Multistory’s Green Roots programme, which questions access to green space, and what climate resilience can look like in one of the UK’s post industrial heartlands.
My contribution, titled Matrix is envisaged as part fiction, part series of anecdotes on reproduction, death and inherited landscapes. It is an experiment in how writing can function like geological layers, inspried by Wrens Nest in Dudley and early memories of falling through the ground.
Authors: Co-edited by Cathy Wade and Jess Piette (Multistory). Contains writing by Exodus Crooks, Billy Haynes, Laura Onions, Lorna Rose and Abigail Villarroel.
For more information and to purchase a copy of the journal, visit the Multistory shop online here.