The weekend retreat for a Poet is conceived as a romantic kinetic folly standing as an isolated tower within the Castle moat. The Poet on arrival by rowing boat triggers a valve which releases water from within a basin lying beneath moat level into
the adjacent River Bewl. The basin drains over the weekend to gradually reveal two entwining fossilised Iguanodons; the perpetrators of the fossil footprints within the Castle quarry.
As the poet, perched in the tree canopied loggia at the top of the tower composes their verse the nine Muses, propelled by the ‘waterclock’, rise to circle
and inspire them. Calliope ascends to complete the circle of Muses at the end of the weekend and signals the crowd to gather in the now dry hollow between the Iguanadons to await the Poet’s recital from their lectern at the bottom of the tower.
At the end of the reading the Poet rows back to the boathouse and the Iguanadon Basin refills returning the moat to its original state of tranquillity.
