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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 15, 2022November 15, 2022

A humanising sense of creativity

The following are extracts from an article in the Scotland on Sunday, 13 November 2022, about a new collection of the Edinburgh poems by Wilfred Owen and Seigfried Sassoon: Wilfred … Continue reading A humanising sense of creativity

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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 2, 2021

Canto 2

The following short films by Peter are about poets and poetry [please click on each image to play a different film]: Balansnummer [a protest poem]: I have written my heart … Continue reading Canto 2

Categories: gardens, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, Two culturesTags: a modern ruin, A Subalterns Love Song, ageing, Ageing is Truth, Ageing stone, Airmail, AIRMAIL the letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer, Alexander Laing, Antiquary, Balansnummer, Beyond the last Dragon, Boness, Brechin, Bridge of Allan, by the way, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Canongate, Canto 2, Canto Two, Cardross, Clive Wright, Discretions and absences, DLROW, Do you hear the plaster drop, Edwin Morgan, Femi Oyebode, Films and POETRY, From Scotland with Love, Gordon family, Great Aunt Mabel, Hole Ousia, I have written my heart in my poems, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Inverpeffray, It happens but rarely, Joan Hunter Dunn, John Betjeman, Kilmadock, Language is the dwelling place of being, Library, Little Gidding, Little Sparta, Little Tullybelton, Makar, Makar for Stirling, Makar of Stirling, Maker, Margaret Scott, meet you at the statue in an hour, Midway, miss joan hunter dunn, MMSE, Monument, Mossgrove, mushroom poems, Nobel prize, Norman Maccaig, Omphalos, Omphalos fims, Perth, Peter Gordon, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Poets, poets and poetry, Poets Lane, protest poem, Rare Species, rebel antiquary, Richard Feynman, River Teith, Robert Bly, Robert Fergusson, Robert Nicholl, Robert Pollok, Scotland, Scotland;s Close, Scottish Poetry Library, scrapbooks, short films, Social maverick, St Ann's, St Peter's Seminary, Stirling's Makar, T S Eliot, The Ageing Stone, The Antiquary, The course of time, The extraordinariness of the usua, The extraordinariness of the usual, The Frog Poet, The poem that time forgot, The Rebel Antiquary, The time is coming up to half-past four, the two cultures, the view from the bench, the wellspring, Tomas Transtromer, Tullybelton, Two Cultures, view from the bench, Wayside Flowers, we belong to the earth, We shall shine in a story that has never been told, Wilfred owen, William Soutar, with heart as gentle for distress, With such strength I have to conceal the passion for fear it may be thought weakness, Wittgenstein, words not found in this dictionary, WORLD spelled backwards, Worry undone, wrapped up in books, You ask me what it is I do

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020June 12, 2022

For my mum and dad

Please click on each image to play each short film on Edinburgh. These films are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, 1904, 1908, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Abbotsford, ageing, Ageing stone, air-raid shelter, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, Baudolino, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Bridge of Allan, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Carubber's Manse, Castlebank Laundry, Charlotte Square, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christopher Lloyd, Cities in Evolution, Colinton, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, Craigmillar Laundry, Damon 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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 4, 2019July 4, 2019

‘An energetic and brilliant (if quirky) polymath’

The following account of Dr Arthur Brock (1879-1947) is from this paper by David Cantor:

Categories: History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Scotland, Two culturesTags: A J Brock, Alexander McCall Smith, An energetic and brilliant (if quirky) polymath, Antaeus, Arthur Brock, Arthur J Brock, Arthur John Brock, Between Galen Geddes and the Gael, British Medical Journal, By living we learn, Camera Obscura, Comte, Craiglockhart, Dr Peter J Gordon, Eccentric, Edinburgh, Galen, Garth hill, Hercules, Hole Ousia, Humanism, Humbie, It is by living we learn, Kirkliston, medical humanism, North Queensferry, On the Natural Faculties, Outlook tower, Overton, Overtoun, Patrick Geddes, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, polymath, Scotland, social determinants, Social maverick, The BMJ, the two cultures, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Vivendo Discimus, Wilfred owen

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