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Title
Dokie's egg
Date
2022
Accession number
NE65_SD_S021
Acquisition method
commissioned by Amble Development Trust and funded by the Coastal Communities Fund, Arts Council England and Northumberland County Council
Work type
Sculpture
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
November 2022
Access
at all times
Inscription description
panel 1: sea pies and a dokie’s egg / JANUARY’s sad-eyed stiff-winged fulmar will roll / mallimawk eggs on the steel cliffs of coquet / come spring FEBRUARY’s wigeon & teal / give fluty peeps as auntie eider hears oohs & aahs / from the boys where she bobs by a coble’s / SWEET PROMISE MARCH’s a sharp rap / at the door – “20 miles” says the fisherman / code for a raft of incoming puffins offshore; panel 2: APRIL’s curlews send sad messages wheep & bubble / over druridge’s salt marshes as skylarks clamber / over the fields on songful ladders MAY’s cry is ahoy! / the navigators are come home to coquet / artic kria roseate keeuk sandwich kerrick terns / shriek kee-yah JUNE send in clowning puffins / saying hiya bill, hello Cyrano! Hey, tommy noddy! / why, that’s a lovely bright neb you’re wearing.; panel 3: JULY’s dipper drops a curtsey shhh on each, / shhh, on each rock, as the star-shot black - / backed gulls flit off to sunny Morocco AUGUST’s / stonechats go click-clack as worried wrens tac-tac / please don’t disturb the stealthy vigil of the lungful / heron SEPTEMBER’s stilted curlews take the flyways / from moor to shore where slant flights of peep-peeping / redshank, dunlin, and knot flicker to- and- fro; panel 4: OCTOBER’s a zigzag of sheen lapwings roosting / in the hauxley mudflats, eyeing bevies of pink- / feet and whooper swans blown in non-stop / from Iceland NOVEMBER’s herring gulls mew / everywhere and anywhere while the fulmars soar / their effortless flybys off cullernose point / DECEMBER’s kleep kleep is a sea pie, ke-beep is / a shy oystercatcher that calls kwirr kleep kleep Alec finlay & chris Watson, with paul morrison