Artist David Mackie who is working on the seams and veins public art commission in the Diaspora Gardens at Heartlands has teamed up with local poet Bob Devereux.
Bob has produced a poem that will be etched in to the granite boulders that David is using as part of his art commission. Bob's poem is below and relates to how the Cornish migrated and travelled all over the world taking their mining skills with them ready to teach others.
Wise in ways of water, steam and engine beams
Seeking ore sheathed in knowledge of bronze
Families determined to flourish
Severed from heartlands uprooted
Sailed to uncertain destinies
Offered free passage they prospered
Followed lodes around the globe
Skilled workers in the seams no dreamers
Spoke of Mexico in epic letters home
Shared kinship in deep shaft in Moonta
Made fortunes mining the rand gold reef
New life blooms from hard rock history
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