FIRTH by Garry Mackenzie isle of man even hostile

even hostile

little girls stand tip-toe inside adult bodies

the simple act of continuing

as well as a radical queer critique of the normative

FIRTH by Garry Mackenzie isle of man even hostileFirth is a poetic portrait of the Firth of Forth. It reaches back into the deep geological past and forward into a troubled future of pollution and extinction, via the boom and bust of the nineteenth century fishing industry. At that time, government advisors recommended against regulating fishing in the Forth estuary, despite the wishes of fishermen who feared the fish population would be decimated without restrictions on trawling. Within a few