At StAnza this year Alastair Cook is putting on Filmpoem, which will include all the pieces which made Where the Land Lies such a memorable event, (mine too), but also new ones, including Better Days by Kevin Cadwallender, which is not only a particularly happy marriage of film and poetry reading, but also a damn’…
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There was a strange text conversation at lunch yesterday, as one of her friends texted my daughter asking “Was your mother born in Liverpool?” “Yes.”“Then I’ve just seen a review of her book in the Scottish Review of Books.“ There was much excitement and I ran out and bought the Herald to check it out.…
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It must be spring. I’ve been switching things around. The books are where the desk was which was a dark and draughty corner,even with the lights on. The computer is in the window, so I have my knees next to the radiator and can watch the weather and the birds. and the desk is where…
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You know Alastair Cook who did the beautiful cover of Wherever We Live Now? He has made a filmpoem out of the first piece in the book Visiting the Dunbrody Famine Ship and you can see it here I hope you like it as much as I do. If you do you can hear Alastair…
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Things have been quiet here lately, while my life got busy elsewhere, but they should be stepping up a bit soon. My poem Word to Sign:Translating Swallows appeared in Poetry Scotland earlier in the summer, Granary Cottage will be in the next Gutter and two poems, The Thaw and Slate Island Landscape will be in…
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I have finally confirmed that I will be reading at the Book Fringe Festival in Word Power Books (43 West Nicholson Street) on Saturday (i.e 22nd August). Event begins at seven o’clock and admission is free.