Edward’s Elephant is a 30 foot talk steel sculpture of an elephant in a viking boat in the centre of Kirkby. The public artwork combines references to both Edward Lear‘s Nonense Property and Kirkby’s Viking past.
The Enthusiastic Elephant
Edward Lear – 1872
The Enthusiastic Elephant,
who ferried himself across the water with the
Kitchen Poker and a New pair of Ear-rings.
Kirby is in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside in the North West of England.
