BANKS LIKE HAVING
An advertisement from a 1963 newspaper:
Tag: he cannot unlearn the feeling
Flight of ideas
Squiggles Prosody (when and now) Syntax (arranged) Grammar (not to be silly) Punctuation (all in the timing) Peter DLROW being confident is not ‘me’. the lack of is my making Capture … Continue reading Flight of ideas
SUMMER TIME ENDS
I have been collecting archive material on Ben Cruachan, the highest mountain in Argyllshire. I am doing so to help me write a poem about this mountain, a poem that … Continue reading SUMMER TIME ENDS
Rough proof
It was strange being dead. I died three times [perhaps more] BEN CRUACAN [I was not ‘Rough Proof’] ALDBAR GLEN [Tainted Love] RUICHLACHRIE [‘a little bit of activity’] As an … Continue reading Rough proof
Hints of robustness survived
Hints of robustness survived: To play this short film please click here or on the image above Music credit: a cover of ‘Smalltown boy’ by the Eves
unlearning things
A passage from this novel by Hanya Yanagihara:
Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender
I recently read Father and Son by the writer and poet Edmund Gosse. This ‘memoir’ was written in 1907 and subtitled ‘a study of two temperaments.’ I was reminded of … Continue reading Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender