Tag: Poetry

  • Singing My Way Back Home

    Singing My Way Back Home

    I’m preparing a Spanish tortilla in my folks kitchen. I can only describe the sounds coming out of my phone as “fluid landscape”. The Reeling by Brighde Chaimbeul, the award-winning young piper from Skye. We had a family holiday on Skye in September 1998 that I will never forget, and the Reelings are bringing back…

  • The hedger and John Clare

    The hedger and John Clare

    Each hedge is loaded thick wi greenAnd where the hedger late hath beenTender shoots begin to growFrom the mossy stumps belowWhile sheep and cow that teaze the grainwill nip them to the root againThey lay their bill and mittens byeAnd on to other labours hie John Clare, in ‘May’ from ‘The Shepherds Calendar’ (1827) We can’t let…

  • Edges, Boundaries, InBetweens: Continuing Explorations in Liminal Space

    Edges, Boundaries, InBetweens: Continuing Explorations in Liminal Space

    ‘The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.’” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed 1974 In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the…