Category Archives: objects

windstream whittled
boundary lines surrendered
sculpture on the way
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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 …
Chuck Wagon crossing The Great Scots Pine
The island of Macgyver
Montage
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A poppy pin.
Fallen, rainwashed,
Rusted, gathered,
Repinned, raindropped.
A tiny lamp relit.
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Survival Kit
A story is commuted,
In unusual company,
Of a forgotten briefcase.
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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…
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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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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. Continue reading
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