being and becoming in the world
I was shocked when I came across this image in the Trove archive. I wondered how the tombstones had become so broken, scattered and neglected? The worn inscription on a … Continue reading Self-Preservation: a Medical Treatise
255 Parliamentary Road, Townhead, Glasgow stood for a number of centuries until it was demolished in the 1960s to make way for ‘improvement works’. It was one of Glasgow’s original … Continue reading No. 255
One of my next poems will be on Dickson’s Close, Edinburgh. It will be narrated by a paperboy [when I was young I used to deliver the Edinburgh Evening News].What … Continue reading It was an expressive silence
This short film is for Harriet. Yesterday I visited her grave. At the end of May we visited Newliston House and gardens. What a beautiful house it is and the … Continue reading ‘Delightfully naïve and charming’