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Mourning and Monsters, 1
(As Christmas and the year’s end approaches, you begin to adopt Janus’s regard: looking forward to what is shared and anticipated, while reflecting back on what is lost or appears to be completed. I’ve been considering the links between the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Croft, Broughty Ferry, Byron, Crete, Don Juan, Dundee, Fudan University, N.S. Thompson, Shanghai
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(A short disquisition on how sideboards do furnish a room, in which I’m thinking about types of closeness: how close we get to – or should approach – those lives we thought we might lead. How distant the writer might … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Poute' (Alexander Burgess), Ane Satire of the Three Estates, Asbestos Garage, Basil Bunting, Broughty Ferry, Burns, Chomei, Dundee, Flarf, Hugh MacDiarmid, James Easson, James Young Geddes, Michael Marra, Sir David Lindsay, Tenerife, The Burns Stanza, The Evening Telegraph, Virtual Sideboard, William McGonagall, Yang Lian
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(When I went off to Crete for 10 days over Paskha, I had a cunning plan. Knowing that I had large projects of scary creative work to do in the realms of both poetry and prose, I set myself two … Continue reading
PsychoGeoFerry 4
(This fourth part of the 2013 Tumblr posts has a semi-conclusive air to it, as I didn’t realise what was to come – the makarship, the death – and so could imagine things were heading to some sort of conclusion. … Continue reading
PsychoGeoFerry 2
(This second note from 2013 is almost literally about finding my feet: I was doing a lot of walking, revisiting and revision ing and revising my perception of the Ferry and Dundee. The ‘Ginsberg glimpse’ from the flat window presaged, … Continue reading
PsychoGeoFerry 1
(Here is the first of the four earlier ‘psychogeo-‘ postings from Tumblr in their correct order. I realised when I scrolled back to look for them, that they are all pre-Makar, ie from Spring and Summer 2013, and, therefore, before … Continue reading
Watching for Dolphins
What does it mean, beyond the simple delight at your own good luck, to look out of your window at the River Tay, and see dolphins swimming past? Or, as happened to me once last year, to pick up the … Continue reading
