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Phorgotography, 1
Our relationship with the photograph has changed so much over the last twenty years that the few black and white or kodachrome or instamatic images of older folks’ childhoods (and of their progenitors’ entire lives) have taken on the austerity … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Stevenson, Broughty Ferry, Constantinople, Crete, Cutlery, Durham, Lockdown, North Shields, Nostalgia, Odysseus, Paskha, Photography, Psarasoupa, Slomadicity, Spolia, St Mark’s, The Black Death, The Fourth Crusade, The Lady of the Lake, The Lit & Phil, Venice
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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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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
On (and over) The Wall
(An edited version of this talk was broadcast on Radio 3’s ‘The Essay’ as part of their Free-Thinking Festival, 2010. It was recorded at the Sage on November 7th, and, at the moment, is not available on their site, but … Continue reading
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Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anthony Birley, Arbeia, Dirty Harry, Euryalus, Hadrian, Hadrian's Wall, Ian McMillan, L.S. Lowry, Little Britain, Nisus, North Shields, Robin Birley, Seamus Heaney, Segedunum, Tam Lin, The Aeneid, the Border Ballads, the First Emperor, The Great Wall of China, Troy, Vindolanda, Virgil, W.H. Auden, Wallsend
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