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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 3, 2021November 3, 2021

‘Life, loss and the words that have helped’

Last weekend, the Sunday Post shared a review of Richard Holloway’s latest book: The review finished with a poem written by Richard Holloway that concludes his latest book. A poem … Continue reading ‘Life, loss and the words that have helped’

Categories: gardens, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: author, Book Review, Canongate, cry happily, Edinburgh, happy-sad-and-everywhere-in-between, Hole Ousia, I went to and loved as a boy, It was, Life loss and the words that have helped, November 2021, Peter Gordon, picture houses, poem, poet, projectionist, Richard Holloway, spools its last real, Sunday Post, The Heart of Things, writer

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021

See/Saw

I have just ordered this book: The following snippets are from a review in Scotland on Sunday, 2 May 2021:

Categories: Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: artist, Canongate, Geoff Dyer, Hole Ousia, John Berger, Looking at Photographs, multifarious learner, photography, picture a beautifully written book on photography, review, Scotland on Sunday, See/Saw, Stuart Kelly, time passes listen, Understanding a photograph, writer

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 5, 2021May 6, 2021

‘lacrimae rerum’

Peter and Sian share a love of all that Edmund de Waal creates. This is the Observer review of his latest book ‘Letters to Camondo’:

Categories: Philosophy, Poems, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 63 Rue de Monceau, A hidden inheritance, a journey into obsession, Antiquary, artist, Belle Epoque, coda, Edmund de Waal, Ephrussi, Hole Ousia, Incorrigibly plural, letters to Camondo, London, multifarious learners, NAZI, netsuke, no ideas but things, observer, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paris, Peter J Gordon, potter, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, synaesthesia, The Antiquary, The Hare with Amber Eyes, The Rebel Antiquary, The White Road, V and A, writer

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 24, 2021

Who owns the land?

This image, as printed in Scotland on Sunday, 21 March 2021, returned my thoughts to the Cabrach, and a series of films that I made long ago:

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