‘We stopped listening and kept on leaping’
From ‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers’ by Max Porter:
Tag: borrowed words
ASTROV
This film is an ‘attack’ on biomedical determinism. To play this film please click here. This film voices others, including: Roy Porter Sylvia Plath Matt Haig Ian Hamilton Finlay Anthony … Continue reading ASTROV
Howards End
For my birthday my daughter, Rachel, gave me ‘Howards End’.
The hunchback
Gilbert Farie, (pronounced fairy) you will not have heard of, for he is a forgotten village Pharmacist who practiced back in Victorian days. Gilbert Farie was the dwarf pharmacist, hunched, … Continue reading The hunchback
The light is unspeakably gorgeous
Neil Gunn to Nan Shepherd: Ted Hughes: Ali Smith (from ‘The Accidental’): The Muse: Robin Hyde:
‘The Accidental’
What follows are a few passages that I have selected from ‘The Accidental’ by Ali Smith:
One hundred years
Mary Midgley died in her hundredth year. Mary Midgley [1919 – 2018]: To play a short film on Mary Midgley please click here or on the image below:
He talks about the whole landscape
A few photographs taken at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens on Sunday 2nd September 2018 and a gathered posie of word-flowers