Harmonika
This piece is republished here in anticipation of the return of some pieces from the former archive website that have been requested by...
Women, writing, Santiago
Much exchange and enthusiasm for exchange of ideas on Contemporary Short Fiction by Women at the University of Santiago della...
Mirrors in the Desert
This exquisite installation artwork was made by Phillip K Smith III from a found wooden shack that was fallling to pieces slowly in the...
The End of Time
" The most ethereally beautiful music of the twentieth century was first heard on a brutally cold January night in 1941, at the Stalag...
Hunting Embroidered Rabbits
Beautiful autumn day, so we went to the Burrell Collection to see the rabbits. The collection, housed in Pollok Park, Glasgow, in a...
Poems in Bothwell Parish Churchyard
Went for a walk in the graveyard of Bothwell Church yesterday, the sky being so clear. The church itself, the oldest Collegiate Church in...
JELLYFISH event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Very warm full house for the event at EIBF on 20th August, chaired by Jackie McGlone. Sorry there was not more time for audience...
Kafka in Prague
In the Czech Republic for a few days, I finally took the time to look out the Jewish Quarter of the city and a little of Kafka. Odd to...
Scotland's Rural College present a Readers' Garden
Second Year Students of SRUC presented a Readers' Garden as their Degree Show final presentation - and I got to go and read in it. Lovely...
Falkirk Fundraiser!
The line-up for the Food Banks Fundraiser on 1st May: left to right, Vicki Jarrett, Gordon, me, MacGillivray, Katherine Macfarlane and...
