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Phorgotography, 4
Continuing the theme of images randomly thrown up by Facebook that then vanish before I’ve finished my usual arduous Working-Out-Of-Thinks, this was from the day of the Russian invasion back in February. The image itself was more than a decade … Continue reading
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Tagged Crimea, General Jumbo, Gladston's, Liz Truss, Margaret Thatcher, North Shields, Russia, Tanks, The Beano, The Provisional, Ukraine, xenochronicity
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Micro-reviews (2): Desperate Fishwives
Here’s another enthusiastic response to being asked to read a book, this time one by the very fine Lindsay MacGregor, who first studied then taught at Dundee Uni, who hosts the Ladybank Platform readings, is part of StAnza’s constellation of … Continue reading
Imagining Imagined Spaces
This review of a book of essays exploring the range of forms possible within creative critical thinking was supposed to appear in a briefer form sometime last year but, for whatever reason, did not. It acts as a sort of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Ronnie Mackintosh, Creative Criticism, Creative Writing, Duncan MacLean, Dundee, Dundee University, Gail Low, Glenn Gould, Kengo Kuma, Kenny Taylor, Kirsty Gunn, Lorens Holm, Meaghan Delahunt, Montaigne, Nine Arches Press, Patrick Geddes, Paul Noble, Philip Lopate, Susan Nickalls, The Idea of North, The V&A, The Voyage Out, Zen, Zenimalism
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The Great Slowing Down versus Poet MacDiarmid (3)
The interiorising impulse is a normal part of most writers’ cycle of composition and publication, but it became stronger for me with my father’s death, after which I spent a couple of years darting off to any far-off place that … Continue reading
The Great Slowing Down versus Poet MacDiarmid (2)
So, as I think I was saying, the GSD equals a reluctance to complete these many waiting posts which isn’t entirely motivated by kindness to the passing reader. It has the air of a necessary recalibration, but the effect of … Continue reading
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Tagged Fernando Pessoa, H.G. Wells, Hugh MacDiarmid, Iggy Pop, Jean Cocteau, Robert Graves
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Micro-reviews (1): Haurd Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds
(Translations into Scots from Du Fu and Li Bai by Brian Holton, Taproot Press, 2021) I’ve been meaning for a while to post a few of the micro-reviews I always end up writing whenever I’m asked for ‘a sentence or … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Holton, Du Fu, Eneados, Gavin Douglas, Hugh MacDiarmid, James MacPherson, Jorge Luis Borges, Li Bai, Ossian, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scots, Scottish literature, Sir Walter Scott, StAnza, Taproot Press, The Aeneid, The Great Slowing Down, William McGonagall, xenochronicity
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The Great Slowing Down versus Poet MacDiarmid (1)
I find in recent years two phenomena have influenced my diminished ability to write reflectively on ‘what’s happening’ (ie to maintain this blog). One is distracting phrases form in my mind with big, mock-serious, near-Germanic capitals at their heads: the … Continue reading
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Tagged C.M. Grieve, H.D., Harriet Tarlo, Hugh MacDiarmid, In Memoriam James Joyce, James Joyce, Margo MacDonald, Peter McCarey, Putin, Robert Graves, StAnza, Teddy Taylor, The Great Slowing Down, The Scottish Poetry Library, The White Goddess, Tom Nairn, Ukraine, Valda Trevelyn
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Renga City (3)
3. Kyū (Outcomes) i. Publication After a while with every project comes that moment of self-reflection: no longer ‘how shall we do this’ or ‘how are we getting on with doing it’, but ‘what shall we do with it now’? … Continue reading
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Tagged Bashō, City of Design, Dundee, Dundee renga, Renga, StAnza, The Bash Street Kids, The Beano
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Renga City (2)
(Part 1 of this article is on the StAnza blog here.) 2. Ha (Observing the rules and departing from them) i. As a set of principles Like any art form that has been practised for hundreds of years, renga is systematised to … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Jackson, Bloodaxe Books, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Dundee renga, DURA, Erin Farley, EUP, Gail Low, Linda France, New Boots and Pantisocracies, North Shields, Renga, Smokestack press, StAnza, The Lit & Phil, The Wreck of the Fathership, Whaleback City
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