Poet Simon Armitage, in collaboration with animateur Rachel Feldberg and a leading sculptor, will create an epic poem inspired by Ilkley Moor and its successive waves of settlement, movement and migration. The poem will be inscribed into the rocks of the moor and incorporated into the great quarry behind the Cow and Calf. Communities and young people across the region will work with poets, calligraphers, and stone masons to create their own linked poems, reflecting the relationship between humans and their landscape, which will be incised on special paving stones across the streets and parks of the region’s cities. A live outdoor performance in the natural amphitheatre of the quarry, featuring climbers, cyclists, digital media artists, musicians and dancers who interpret spoken word through performance and using pedal-powered projections of Armitage’s poem will celebrate the works unveiling in 2012 and be shared across the region via the ‘big screens’ of major cities and online..