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Dr Richard A Carter is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture at the University of York. Carter"s research practice investigates the more-than-human dimensions of technical artefacts, activities, and environments.

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The source texts driving the vocabularly of each volumetric poem are: Sounding the Ocean of Air (1900) by A. Lawrence Rotch; L"Aviateur [The Aviator] (1926) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; Stick and Rudder (1944) by Wolfgang Langewiesche; Glider Flying (1963) by Ann Welch.

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Published in January 2025, Updated October 2025, v.1.5.1.

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