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Tag: poetry

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 10, 2025August 10, 2025

A kind of poetic essay with songs

We are fortunate to have tickets to see Windblown by Karine Polwart at Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh for Monday 11th August. These are some extracts from yesterday’s Scotsman:

Categories: Folk worth talking about, gardens, Progress hardly broke its stride, Scotland, TreesTags: Botanic gardens, climate change, concert, Edinburgh, Karine Polwart, loss, mortality, poetry, singing, trees
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 3, 2025August 4, 2025

CONFIDENCE undoubted

moons brighter than any sun orbits without galaxies, wordless quarks.

Categories: Poems, This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: Peter's poems, poetry
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 1, 2025

It was the singing.

This is my latest piece of garden art:

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, gardens, PoemsTags: gentle gardener, Iain Crichton Smith, Mossgrove, Peter + Sian's garden, poems, poetry, singing, two girls singing
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 23, 2025July 23, 2025

Old World

Inspired by a review of ‘Old World‘, a collection of poems by Robert Crawford.

Categories: Progress hardly broke its stride, This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: poetry, poets, Scotland, transitional objects, two cultures
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 2, 2025

Ariel II

From an article about Sylvia Plath in the Observer, 29 June 2025

Categories: Folk worth talking about, Poems, Two culturesTags: folk worth talking about, poetry, poets, Sylvia Plath
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 15, 2025

Tomas Tranströmer: we belong to the earth

We belong to the earth: To play this short film please click on the image above.

Categories: Folk worth talking about, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Poems, Two culturesTags: folk worth talking about, Omphalos films, poetry, poets, Tomas Tranströmer
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 14, 2025

balansnummer

To play  b a l a n s n u m m e r  please click here or on the image below:

Categories: Folk worth talking about, gardens, Omphalos films, Progress hardly broke its stride, Two culturesTags: Mossgrove, Peter + Sian's garden, poetry, poets, Tomas Tranströmer
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 13, 2025

Ian’s ideas

Ian Hamilton Finlay continues to inspire what I do.

Categories: Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: artists, gardener, gardens, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Little Sparta, poetry, poets, Scotland, Time passes. Listen, two cultures, two girls singing

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