ebban an` flowan

ebban an’ flowan
Alec Finlay
Laura Watts
Gareth Davies
ebban an' flowan
a primer for marine renewable energy
a reading and talk: Alec Finlay and Laura Watts
in conversation with Gareth Davies (Aquatera)
followed by a book launch
Thursday 24 March
7:30 - 9:00 pm
The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
Free entry - Places limited
ebban an’ flowan is the world’s first poetic primer on marine renewable energy. The book focuses on the
Orkney islands as the leading international test site for this nascent energy industry, and expands to reflect on
its relationship with the Nordic countries across the sea.
Through both language and technology, the book explores how use is inflected with locality. A number of
tide and wave energy devices are illustrated, some in dock, others in the sea, along with an anthology of their
characterful names – mixing humour with invocations of classical myth and metamorphosis.
The project is inspired by ongoing social research in collaboration with people and places around marine energy
in Orkney, conducted as part of the Alien Energy project at the IT University of Copenhagen.
photograph by Alistair Peebles, reversed photogram by Rebecca Marr