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Maison d’Emma
We were flying over yellow-orange patterns of lights, graceful traceries that looked like the pathways between star clusters, a spinning galactic dance, momentarily caught and held. Seeing the lights...
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Citadels of Vertigo and the Ethics of Desire
The medieval town of Minerve lies a few kilometres north of Carcassonne, in the south west of France. The flat landscape rears into sudden rock, half-covered with scrub and bushes. The gentle slopes...
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Travelling Songs
Travelling and wayfaring are two of the themes that each of these poetry publications share, with reflections on the physical and spiritual journeys that we all make in the course of our lives. The...
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Scottish PEN
International PEN is a worldwide writers’ organisation. Scottish PEN has been active since 1927, when it was founded by Hugh McDiarmid, Edwin and Willa Muir, Helen Cruickshank and others. Based in the...
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The Metaphysical in Tessa Ransford’s Poetry
Tessa Ransford is a prolific poet and her work reflects the wide range of her interests and experience. Her poetry brims with an intellectual energy and the wisdom of feeling. Geographically, we travel...
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Egon Schiele’s Paintings and Vienna’s Evening Streets
A poster advertising the Egon Schiele exhibition displays one of his self-portraits. The colours and the shapes look out of place among Vienna’s baroque architecture. It looks ugly that’s what I...
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Lucky Charm
Set in two times, the early 1960s and 2012, Tom Hubbard’s The Lucky Charm of Major Bessop is sometimes a straightforward narrative and sometimes told through the voices of different characters. The...
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