old post

windstream whittled

boundary lines surrendered

sculpture on the way

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Gallery

Something a little different – a gallery with an assortment of some of the images and montages that I’ve made to illustrate this blog over the past wee whiley …

The island of Macgyver

Montage

Chuck Wagon crossing The Great Scots Pine

Found art

A poppy pin.
Fallen, rainwashed,
Rusted, gathered,
Repinned, raindropped.
A tiny lamp relit.

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Survival kit

Survival Kit

A story is commuted,
In unusual company,
Of a forgotten briefcase.

Essential labels

Somewhere in the back of my mind, were the wonders of the ‘perfume maker’s organ’ – like this magnificent and rare specimen at the Palazzo Mocenigo Museum in Venice.

Something a little different – a series of seven ‘photo-label-poems’.

These are a light hearted response to an invitation from my brother-in-law to take part in a seven day ‘nature image’ photography challenge.

I decided to combine my response with a small collection of old laboratory bottles loaned from a colleague at work, and with some [very] short poems responding to each image, in the form of a label…

 

Empty specimen tube

Empty specimen tube

Only the glass and a label remain,

Hand inked and underscored in 1898,

Now discoloured, cracked and torn:

 

KING of the HERRING

Chimae … monserosa

MALE

Great Fisher Bank. 1898

 

Lord of darlings,

Bright as salt burnished silver.

Ozymandias of the herring kind.

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Telling Time

Watch a video excerpt from IC-98’s piece ‘Abendland’

It’s been quite a long time since I first read a poem to a ‘live’ audience. A few years in fact. Last week I got around to standing up in front of a small group of people in a (fairly) public space again.  The occasion was an ‘echo’ event at DCA where people were responding to an exhibition of the unusual slow animations of the artists IC-98. My poem tries to do it’s own explaining, so, I think I’ll just let it…

In response to an exhibition of work by IC-98. Dundee, January 2016.