Louisa Adjoa Parker created the poem by reading the words and drawings people shared on their postcards about what they love, and what worries them, about the Dorset landscape. She shaped these into a prose poem made of postcard‑style messages between people today and people in the future.
Four themes guided the structure: people’s connection to the landscape, current concerns, an imagined bleak future, and a hopeful future. Louisa blended real phrases from the postcards—like “bones of land”—with her own creative responses to bring everyone’s voices together.