Go North!
This film, based upon the 1908 ‘Scottish National Exhibition’, seeks to celebrate our experience of life through the passing of TIME. This film is for Joan Bakewell. Music credit: ‘I’m … Continue reading Go North!
Tag: Sylvia Plath
Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender
I recently read Father and Son by the writer and poet Edmund Gosse. This ‘memoir’ was written in 1907 and subtitled ‘a study of two temperaments.’ I was reminded of … Continue reading Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender
‘Let it be boldly admitted’
I recently read Father and Son by Edmund Gosse. Edmund Gosse wrote this book in 1907 and it describes his early years in an exceptionally devout [stifling] Plymouth Brethren … Continue reading ‘Let it be boldly admitted’
The writing on the waas o devotion
On the second Monday of May 2021, my guid friend Rab Wilson, poet and lad o’pairts, took me to the old abandoned farmhoose of Cormilligan a small sheep farm in … Continue reading The writing on the waas o devotion