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Tag: Robin Hyde

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 14, 2022November 21, 2024

The Godwits Fly

    

Categories: History of medicine, Medical humanities, This is Not yesterdayTags: Godwits fly, Novel, Patrick Geddes, prescribed harm, Robin Hyde, suicide
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 2, 2022November 20, 2025

BENZEDRINE

‘The Godwits Fly’ is one of my favourite books. It was written by Robin Hyde and published not long before her early death in August 1939. Robin Hyde died as … Continue reading BENZEDRINE

Categories: History of medicine, Medical humanities, PsychiatryTags: Godwits fly, prescribed harm, Robin Hyde, suicide
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 30, 2019December 3, 2024

It was the rain

This film is for the Reverend Charles Brian Holliday (1934 – 2019). My uncle was known by his middle name Brian. It was the rain: To play this short film … Continue reading It was the rain

Categories: Family history, Omphalos filmsTags: Marcel Proust, Omphalos films, rain, Robin Hyde
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 1, 2019December 3, 2024

‘War is little pictures’

Yesterday I visited Braefoot Point battery on the Firth of Forth. It was once “armed to the teeth”. [Quotes are by Robin Hyde, Rupi Kaur and Virginia Woolf.]

Categories: ScotlandTags: abandoned, graffiti, Hale Bopp, River Forth, Robin Hyde, Rupi Kaur
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 30, 2019December 4, 2024

The Godwits

This film is for Robin Hyde. To play this short film please click here or on the image above Credits belong to the Godwits alone.

Categories: Ageing, gardens, Omphalos films, This is Not yesterdayTags: Godwits fly, Omphalos films, Robin Hyde
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 26, 2018December 5, 2024

The light is unspeakably gorgeous

Neil Gunn to Nan Shepherd: Ted Hughes: Ali Smith (from ‘The Accidental’): The Muse: Robin Hyde:

Categories: Two culturesTags: Ali Smith, borrowed words, light, muses, Nan Shepherd, Robin Hyde, Ted Hughes
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