being and becoming in the world
To find the backdrop to each poem, please click on the image below that poem. The Story Garden Spring to winter, coloured chalks travel with me. Last spring, on Phoenix … Continue reading coronas + supernovas of colour [part 1]
A selection of my recent wee films – or ‘televisual poems.’ The overarching theme is childhood and what it means to grow up in the unique world of your own … Continue reading a recent selection
10 August 1967, Glasgow Daily Record: Image from Trove archive: The Red Road Development:
Joan Eardley, speaking from her Townhead studio, Glasgow [probably late 1950s]: “The community feeling is rapidly disappearing in Glasgow . . . I do feel there is still a little … Continue reading There’s still a little bit left.
This short film asks: can you remember what it was like to see the world from a child’s point of view? To play this short film please click here or … Continue reading The child’s eye view
To play my fictional meeting with Joan Eardley please click here. Opening voice: Peter Scott-Gordon reading one of his poems. Music Credits: The Singing Street [1960s] and a cover of … Continue reading a shy paper-boy meets
Last month, sketches and paintings by Joan Eardley were in an auction sale in Edinburgh, such as this one: Lyon and Turnbull provided this provenance for the pastel sketch: ‘Given … Continue reading Angus Menmuir Neil
To watch ‘the proximity of my childhood’ please click here. Music credit: Peter Gabriel