Have you any one-word poems?
If you have written any one-word poems and would like to share them, please get in touch and I will add them to this page (with full credit) Rules as set … Continue reading Have you any one-word poems?
Tag: Ian Hamilton Finlay
For all little Spartans
A page for one word poems (with titles as long as you so wish). This page is dedicated to all ‘Little Spartans’ I strive beyond the talk of ‘objectivity’ … Continue reading For all little Spartans
Kailyards
My Gordon family came from remote and lost parts of Aberdeenshire. For some reason I keep returning to the now ruinous homesteads of my forebears where only wild kailyards continue … Continue reading Kailyards
‘Sometimes my wee best seems just not good enough’
In a letter to his friend Stephen Bann, the artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay once concluded “Sometimes my wee best seems just not good enough”. This is a feeling … Continue reading ‘Sometimes my wee best seems just not good enough’
Arts and sciences: a modern antisyzygy
Ian Hamilton Finlay:My writings and films attempt to challenge the idea of “two cultures”. I have never found divides very helpful. I seek gateways and bridges.
The manner of what we make defines us
Filmed at Mossgrove, Bridge of Allan, on Saturday 22nd April 2017. The manner of what we make defines us: To play this short film please click here or on the … Continue reading The manner of what we make defines us
Driving the wrong way through history
This film is about Charles Brand Ltd, Dundee. This company demolished, or partly demolished, much of the ‘built history’ that still survived in Scotland in the 1950s and 1960s. Not … Continue reading Driving the wrong way through history
Omphatyp’
Derivation of “Omphatyp”: ◾[Ompha] – from Omphalos, the centre, the belly, where until umbilically cut, we have home. Belly, also suggesting “gut reaction”. ◾[Typ] – from Typos, a blow, impression, … Continue reading Omphatyp’