poetry
Poema Volcánico (Volcanic Poem)
Eduardo Navarro project for Bienal de Cuenca 12, in Ecuador, investigating how to capture a volcano’s energy and using it as a transformative tool. He used a special suit to get to the volcano crater protected from the suplur and high temperatures, to create drawings in a partnership with the GuaGua Pichincha active volcano, using litmus paper, which measured the acidity in the gas emissions produced by the fumaroles inside the crater.
Sometimes, coming close feels like winning anyway
Ok, I didn’t win, but I’ll happily take Highly Commended in Rialto Nature and Place Competition 2025 thank you very much. I love the judge Helen Mort’s own poetry too, which makes it even sweeter. Must be doing something right. Congra…
Baggage: a meditation on modern life
Last week, Treecreate Studio launched BAGGAGE, an evolving installation exploring memory and storytelling through handbags. This project examines personal collection, emotional baggage, and consumerism, inviting audience engagement through shared stories.
Ronaigh – on Radiophrenia this coming Sunday
Radiophrenia – https://radiophrenia.scot/listen/ – 13 April 2025 10:00 am – 11:30 am July. 40 miles off the top of the Outer Hebrides. Stand below St Ronan’s church. Walk south on lazy bed corrugations to the low cliffs. Turn east. Pass … Continue reading
Radiophrenia and three of my works
Radiophrenia is back – Monday April 7th to Sunday April 20th. I have three works appearing and the first is Hallaig on 7 April 2025 4:30 am – 6:30 am May. The Hebridean island of Raasay. From a beach below Gualann … Continue reading
Unfulfilled Playlist
A while ago, I wrote a poem about the experience of buying records in shops, as a kind of post-streaming, tribute to the irreplaceable, tactile, sensory atmosphere of physical stores. The poem ‘Unfulfilled Playlist’ has now been published on Wild Court…
9. Kayla Czaga, Midway
My colleague, Medrie Purdham, suggested Kayla Czaga’s work to me some time ago, and last night I finally got around to reading Midway. I want to call it a delightful book, although I’m afraid that the subject matter–most of the poems focus on the death of Czaga’s father and her grief–doesn’t lend itself to the … Continue reading 9. Kayla Czaga, Midway
A walk on Dove Crag Island for Terminalia 2025
Dove Crag Island is created by my human-scale movement and my imagination. I walk the island once each month across the turning of the year. For Terminalia I walk an eight-mile shoreline … a boundary of an imagined island … … Continue reading