visual art
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The new issue of Irish Pages, entitled Memory, has just arrived today. It includes work by Michael Longley and Wendell Berry as well as a substantial contribution by David Kinloch. It also happens to be the first issue which I have had some editorial input, my contribution on that side being a beautiful poem by
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Yesterday I received the e-mail below from Colin Herd. It looks like a really interesting opportunity for writers of any kind in or near Edinburgh at the appropriate time to interact with and respond to new visual art: As part of Edinburgh Annuale 2011, the festival of independent art practice, I’m editing and publishing a
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A quick reminder about the Chinese Whispers event at the Scottish Poetry Library on Wednesday this week. It’s part of the Poetry Beyond Text season, which I blogged about here. It’s free and it starts at 6 pm. E-mail reception@spl.org.uk if you’re planning on going. Various artists and poets involved will discuss the process of
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It has been a deeply unproductive day, so I thought I’d catch up with a little blogging and, simultaneously, remind myself of some recent productivity. The current exhibition at the good ole SPL features a selection of work created as part of Poetry Beyond Text, an extensive, exciting interdisciplinary research programme run jointly by the
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I love the way that visual artists see light. My good friend, the photographer, filmmaker and — although he frequently denies it — poet Alastair Cook has a beautiful photography exhibition, Analogue Decay, at the Howden Park Centre in Livingston. Unfortunately, it finishes today but, if you possibly can, I recommend you get along and
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Hidden Door 2 approaches fast! I’m particularly excited about this one, as I’ve been putting together a fantastic — if I do say so myself — poetry and art project along with Dave Martin and Jane McKie. It’s called Impossible Journeys, it will thread through the venue and it involves 10 poets, including some leading
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It’s turning into a year of collaborations with visual artists for me. Douglas Robertson, who interviewed me on my blog tour, has an exhibition coming up at the Scottish Poetry Library from 8 May to 14 June, which will include a sequence of small theatre-like assemblages entitled ‘Horizontals’, based on five one-line poems of mine
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Hidden Door is a brand new mini-festival of the arts that takes place at the end of this month. On 30 and 31 January, 30 bands, 40 artists, 10 poets and 10 film makers will take over the Roxy Art House in Edinburgh and transform the space with an art maze, hidden stages and innovative
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Today’s tour stop is at the blog of Dundee-born artist Douglas Robertson. Doug has turned our chat via Facebook messages into a fine post about my sequence of “Hebridean Thumbnails”, incorporating the poems themselves and beautiful, deft sketches he has created to accompany them. I say it’s about the sequence, but that’s really only the
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Whoops! I’ve got a day behind myself in posting the links to my Cylone virtual book tour. Thankfully, Claire Askew is on the ball and posted her interview with me on her One Night Stanzas blog yesterday as advertised. Drop by and read about how I became a writer, how I got from my first
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The Herald reports today that the title painting from Alison Watt’s recent National Gallery exhibition, which I saw during my trip to London in May, has been bought by the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. I’m delighted it’ll be on permanent display reasonably close to home.
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Time once again to highlight the blog of my good friend and sometime collaborator, the painter David Martin. Two years ago, he embarked on an epic tour of the middle east to gather material for his Salvesen award exhibition, following the trail of Hermes Trismegistus. His blog of that adventure proved him to be a
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“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” (Nehemiah 8:10) It’s a verse often used in certain quarters, under the rubric of encouragement, to bludgeon the hurting for a failure to demonstrate happiness in pain. No thought given to the harm this misapplication does or what it implies, namely that God is not to be
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Last year, I exhibited three poems at an exhibition at the offices of our church here in Linlithgow, organised by my wife. This year, the exhibition has moved to the bigger space of the church building, expanding its range of media–already wide last year–and the reach of its contributors to include several people from outside
Amy Jo Philip 