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The Sea View Has Me Again - audio work - Shona Illingworth and Patrick Wright

Illingworth, Shona and wright, patrick (2021) The Sea View Has Me Again - audio work - Shona Illingworth and Patrick Wright. The Estuary Festival Item format: Audio - Radio Broadcast. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:114761)

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Abstract

A sound work by Shona Illingworth and Patrick Wright with Big Fish Arts.

Patrick Wright's book The Sea View Has Me Again (hardback December 2020, paperback June 2021) is the story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany’s greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in the 1970s. Shona Illingworth is a filmmaker whose work explores the intersections between the complex individual and societal processes of memory and the impact of amnesia.

The writer and artist, who have been sharing their investigations since 2017, recorded a conversation on the Isle of Sheppey in May 2021. This has been brought together with recorded readings from Johnson’s descriptions of the ‘moral utopia’ he found on Sheppey, made with local arts organisation Big Fish.

Patrick and Shona’s sound work was broadcast on Sheppey FM at 16:30 on Sunday 23 May 2021

Thanks to Big Fish Arts and the readers.

This work drew directly from Patrick Wright's substantial book The Sea View Has Me Again. Associated texts and images, still and moving, can be found on patrickwright.net.

Credits

Voices:

Patrick Wright

Shona Illingworth

Readers from Big Fish Arts:

Justin Aggett

Jo Eden

Jim Enright

Albion Grey

Jeanette McClaren

Chris Reed

Sue Percival

Janys Thornton

Jeremy Thornton

Sound Mix:

Jeff Knowler

Item Type: Audio
Uncontrolled keywords: Isle of Sheppey, history, Uwe Johnson, literature, Patrick Wright
Subjects: N Visual Arts
Institutional Unit: Schools > School of Arts and Architecture
Schools > School of Arts and Architecture > Film
Former Institutional Unit:
There are no former institutional units.
Depositing User: Shona Illingworth
Date Deposited: 11 May 2026 20:34 UTC
Last Modified: 11 May 2026 20:37 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/114761 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Illingworth, Shona.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8304-4890
CReDIT Contributor Roles: Conceptualisation (Lead), Methodology (Lead), Writing - original draft (Lead)
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