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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 2, 2021

Canto 2

The following short films by Peter are about poets and poetry [please click on each image to play a different film]: Balansnummer [a protest poem]: I have written my heart … Continue reading Canto 2

Categories: gardens, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, Two culturesTags: a modern ruin, A Subalterns Love Song, ageing, Ageing is Truth, Ageing stone, Airmail, AIRMAIL the letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer, Alexander Laing, Antiquary, Balansnummer, Beyond the last Dragon, Boness, Brechin, Bridge of Allan, by the way, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Canongate, Canto 2, Canto Two, Cardross, Clive Wright, Discretions and absences, DLROW, Do you hear the plaster drop, Edwin Morgan, Femi Oyebode, Films and POETRY, From Scotland with Love, Gordon family, Great Aunt Mabel, Hole Ousia, I have written my heart in my poems, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Inverpeffray, It happens but rarely, Joan Hunter Dunn, John Betjeman, Kilmadock, Language is the dwelling place of being, Library, Little Gidding, Little Sparta, Little Tullybelton, Makar, Makar for Stirling, Makar of Stirling, Maker, Margaret Scott, meet you at the statue in an hour, Midway, miss joan hunter dunn, MMSE, Monument, Mossgrove, mushroom poems, Nobel prize, Norman Maccaig, Omphalos, Omphalos fims, Perth, Peter Gordon, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Poets, poets and poetry, Poets Lane, protest poem, Rare Species, rebel antiquary, Richard Feynman, River Teith, Robert Bly, Robert Fergusson, Robert Nicholl, Robert Pollok, Scotland, Scotland;s Close, Scottish Poetry Library, scrapbooks, short films, Social maverick, St Ann's, St Peter's Seminary, Stirling's Makar, T S Eliot, The Ageing Stone, The Antiquary, The course of time, The extraordinariness of the usua, The extraordinariness of the usual, The Frog Poet, The poem that time forgot, The Rebel Antiquary, The time is coming up to half-past four, the two cultures, the view from the bench, the wellspring, Tomas Transtromer, Tullybelton, Two Cultures, view from the bench, Wayside Flowers, we belong to the earth, We shall shine in a story that has never been told, Wilfred owen, William Soutar, with heart as gentle for distress, With such strength I have to conceal the passion for fear it may be thought weakness, Wittgenstein, words not found in this dictionary, WORLD spelled backwards, Worry undone, wrapped up in books, You ask me what it is I do

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 4, 2020September 5, 2020

a letter-carrier

It would have been wonderful to chat with this old letter-carrier and to listen to his stories:

Categories: Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 103 years old, Antiquary, Cardross, Centenarian, Clyde steamer, Craigend cottage, Dumbarton, five British Sovereigns, Glasgow, Glasgow Style, Hole Ousia, introduction of railways, letter-carrier, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Comet, The Rebel Antiquary

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 6, 2018June 6, 2018

Fate of Scotland’s ‘Modern Ruin’ uncertain

I was saddened to read in today’s Scotsman that NVA’s plan to turn neglected Peter’s Seminary, Cardross, into a cultural venue have collapsed: I visited St Peter’s Seminary on the … Continue reading Fate of Scotland’s ‘Modern Ruin’ uncertain

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Arts Correspondent, Brian Ferguson, Cardross, Coia, Cultural centre, Fiona Hyslop, Gillespie, June 2018, Kidd, Modern Ruin, NVA, Scotsman, St Peter's Seminary

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 28, 2016November 26, 2017

A Modern Ruin

The ruin of St Peter’s Seminary has been in the news. This given the Hinterland event of music and lighting: In December 2013 I visited St Peter’s Seminary. I found it … Continue reading A Modern Ruin

Categories: Ageing, Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Architecture, Cardross, Hinterland, Le Corbusier, Modern Ruin, ruin, Scotland, St Peter's, St Peter's Seminary

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