Rivering is an experimental poem sequence exploring the intersection of parenthood, memory, and environmental consciousness through the lens of 'rivering' – the tension between stillness and flow. Written in situ beside the River Avon, the pamphlet blends intimate domestic moments with natural observation, entangling childhood memory, new fatherhood, and ecological awareness.
190mm x 150mm.
Section sewn.
Arena papers with G.F. Smith endpapers in Rust.
Featuring photographs taken by Andrew’s great x 3 grandmother Helen Groom.
Every order of Rivering comes with a free limited edition letterpress postcard, printed at Princetown Press, Dartmoor.
Praise for Rivering:
‘Come, quickthorn is restored to its interdimensional ancient gateway! There is nothing you can predict here, leaving you to imagine the world different from when you began reading. I’m a huge fan of this collection.’
CAConrad, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
‘Flux defines Andrew Hykel Mears’ fluvial pamphlet, Rivering. Dualities and contradictions flow between questioning forms as fatherhood persists alongside environmental degradation. Nothing is fixed, nor certain; the quickthorn is mutable as the water cycle. Rivering is sung by a voice on the stream’s other bank calling you into slippery, unsettled waters. Watch your footing, images refract beneath the surface.’
Tom Branfoot, author of Volatile
‘Andrew Hykel Mears offers a playful, self‑aware poetics that invites the reader to linger, drift, and return. These are poems in deep conversation with language, with a river’s restless intelligence, and with the mind as it moves, tracking thought through turbulence and slack water, spinning into eddies, then surfacing with sudden clarity. A pamphlet to dwell in and yield to.’
JLM Morton, author of Red Handed
About the author:
Andrew is a writer and musician currently based in Bristol. He is founder/managing editor of Ambient Receiver (ambientreceiver.org).
Rivering is an experimental poem sequence exploring the intersection of parenthood, memory, and environmental consciousness through the lens of 'rivering' – the tension between stillness and flow. Written in situ beside the River Avon, the pamphlet blends intimate domestic moments with natural observation, entangling childhood memory, new fatherhood, and ecological awareness.
190mm x 150mm.
Section sewn.
Arena papers with G.F. Smith endpapers in Rust.
Featuring photographs taken by Andrew’s great x 3 grandmother Helen Groom.
Every order of Rivering comes with a free limited edition letterpress postcard, printed at Princetown Press, Dartmoor.
Praise for Rivering:
‘Come, quickthorn is restored to its interdimensional ancient gateway! There is nothing you can predict here, leaving you to imagine the world different from when you began reading. I’m a huge fan of this collection.’
CAConrad, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
‘Flux defines Andrew Hykel Mears’ fluvial pamphlet, Rivering. Dualities and contradictions flow between questioning forms as fatherhood persists alongside environmental degradation. Nothing is fixed, nor certain; the quickthorn is mutable as the water cycle. Rivering is sung by a voice on the stream’s other bank calling you into slippery, unsettled waters. Watch your footing, images refract beneath the surface.’
Tom Branfoot, author of Volatile
‘Andrew Hykel Mears offers a playful, self‑aware poetics that invites the reader to linger, drift, and return. These are poems in deep conversation with language, with a river’s restless intelligence, and with the mind as it moves, tracking thought through turbulence and slack water, spinning into eddies, then surfacing with sudden clarity. A pamphlet to dwell in and yield to.’
JLM Morton, author of Red Handed
About the author:
Andrew is a writer and musician currently based in Bristol. He is founder/managing editor of Ambient Receiver (ambientreceiver.org).
