Building the Ark is the text, with selected images, of Pat Boran’s poetry film of the same name, exploring the essential relationship between humans and our animal companions. Reflecting on the Bible story of Noah and the Ark, it considers how, in times of great change, even stories we’ve known all our lives can have new things to reveal to us.

Part of an ongoing series of illustrated independent publications, which includes last year’s The Statues of Emo Court, it is published in a distinctive pocket-sized, square format by Orange Crate Books on 12 January 2022, and available from Dedalus Press.