Gaberston boys
When we last met you were young men, really just boys – certified or not – Designated ‘insane’. I was your visiting doctor In Gaberston house. Yesterday, I met you … Continue reading Gaberston boys
Tag: poetry
Thoughts that became final
Stuart Kelly, in the Scotsman, 16 August 2025: a review of ‘The Empire of Forgetting’ by John Burnside “Although it reflects his longstanding concerns with haunting and mortality, this posthumous … Continue reading Thoughts that became final
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:
CONFIDENCE undoubted
moons brighter than any sun orbits without galaxies, wordless quarks.
It was the singing.
This is my latest piece of garden art:
Old World
Inspired by a review of ‘Old World‘, a collection of poems by Robert Crawford.
Ariel II
From an article about Sylvia Plath in the Observer, 29 June 2025
Tomas Tranströmer: we belong to the earth
We belong to the earth: To play this short film please click on the image above.