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The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday

The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday

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I wear Twyford as a wound. My mouth is raw. I am open for salvation. In 1992, a group of young people began to protest against the extension of the M3 motorway through Twyford Down near Winchester. A new road that would cut seven minutes off the journey between London and Southampton whilst carving through one of England’s protected Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Dongas tribe radically altered the UK’s environmental movement and were lauded by the Guardian for having ‘kickstarted a major shift in green attitudes in both government and the public.’ Twyford Down became a symbol for over a thousand protected heritage sites across the UK, which were due to undergo the same process, removing idiosyncrasy from the landscape and presenting an ideal for a country based on mobility and so-called progress. Must’s searing collection considers the role dialogue can play as witness to our impact on the Earth. These powerful, moving, and honest depictions of the campaign explore the ways in which language can reach us, save us, or even fail to convince us. Here, the land reveals its histories to the reader, whilst protest actions are juxtaposed with judicial statements, teetering between the active and passive, the human and non-human.