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Tag: Alan Daiches

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 1, 2026August 1, 2026

a televisual poem

A ‘televisual poem‘ that asks: can you remember what it is like to see the world from a child’s point of view? To play this televisual poem please click here … Continue reading a televisual poem

Categories: Omphalos films, Poems, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: Alan Daiches, childhood, colour, colour was not affordable, coloured chalks, Edinburgh, Glasgow, graffiti, imagine being a colour and a feeling, In your eyes, Local time passed into history, Omphalos films, Peter Gabriel, pogo, televisual poems, these colours, those colours, Trove
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 17, 2026July 17, 2026

The Seeing Eye: Alan Daiches

In the Trove archive, I recently came across the wonderful photography of Alan Daiches [died 2006]. The above advertisement page is from The Scotsman, 11 October 1969. Here are some … Continue reading The Seeing Eye: Alan Daiches

Categories: Folk worth talking about, Scotland, Time passesTags: Aberdeen, Alan Daiches, artists, David Bowie, Demarco, Edinburgh, folk worth talking about, Hugh MacDiarmid, Kynd Kittock's Land, Norman McCaig, Photography, poets, Robert Fergusson, Stone Heart, Sydney Goodsir Smith, The Future of Scottish Poetry, The Seeing Eye, Two Scottish Photographers, Usher Hall, ways of seeing
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