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The foghorn’s haunting hoot is a sad loss

29 May 2021

9:00 AM

29 May 2021

9:00 AM

The Foghorn’s Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast Jennifer Lucy Allan

White Rabbit, pp.286, 16.99

Halfway through what must count as one of the more esoteric quests, Jennifer Lucy Allan finds herself on a hill near Birkenhead, in a cottage which houses the archive of the Association of Lighthouse Keepers. In a small bedroom long since surrendered to the past, she is handed a homemade CD of 90 foghorn recordings of ‘uncertain provenance’.

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