Tobias Aisbitt-Waugh
Unearthing healing words from the boggy moors of our communal dreaming
Latest Recordings
Tobias is a poet, writer, and artist living on a wild and wind kissed peak of West Dartmoor, England.
New Releases
I am the land (film poem)
“I am the land where stone is stacked on stone,
where ancient living lore sings clear of shrouded holly throne…”
Rachael Jones during filming at Merrivale
I am the land is a poem of belonging, stomped and chanted into life through a year of seasons roaming the rich and mystic wilds of Dartmoor, England. An offering of words teased from thorny gorse with syllables honed on granite nooks. The 16mm analogue film is layered and coaxed into life, emulating the light and character of the landscape, from the stillness of the moorland expanse to the rugged hum of portentous standing stones. The narration is accompanied by a dilating soundscape that invokes the sense of awe one feels when eking out a moment from our busy lives to be present among the hills. But the land who reaches to grip you through the screen is not one who suffers meekly at our neglect, but the very heart of the matter, a land who patiently holds our suffering, longing that we reconnect… (9min)
Upcoming Screenings:
10th & 11th November
Experimental Film Weekender at CMR Project Space Redruth
Boulder Awe
(illustrated poetry collection)
Born of the fervent wilds of Dartmoor, where the collection was coaxed and chanted into life, Boulder Awe reaches meaty tendrils out into the muck and magic of our human experience. Featuring the poem I am the land from the short film of the same name, as well as the phantasmagoric illustrations of Elin Manon.
“Tobias enjoys a profound intimacy with his immediate environment, but beyond the purely physical lies the spiritual, the psychological, the mythological, and this too is explored with insight and emotion. He becomes the poet as seer, sensitive to that which lies beneath and above the visible and tangible . . . But it’s the density and intensity of the language, by turns playful and urgent, lightweight and freighted with darker meaning, that engages the reader most . . . the poems crackle with inventive inversions and dizzying displays of verbal acrobatics!”
Elisabeth Rowe, author of Timewise
In 2022, Tobias and his wife Lily set up Tended Hearth to bring together creatives across disciplines to make works that nourish the soul and speak to the heart.
