Seven Makar-ish Things
19 February 2022
A Makarship must give you time to write, it should suggest how to turn that into a performance or a publication, and, ideally, fund it. Such a set-up understands that the writer, their community, heritage, and artistic peers are all equals.
The Thursday Post: Station to Station
22 September 2016
It feels good to have my feet back on Scottish soil as I’ve been dashing about recently, with trips to Malta, Russia and Norway. The trip to Malta was to visit the Inizjamed: Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival 2016. This festival...The Thursday Post: Canadian Dreaming
21 June 2016
Last year I had the pleasure of being one of three Scottish poets selected to be part of an exchange project with three Innu writers from Canada. The Innu writers were Joséphine Bacon, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine and Naomi Fontaine...The Thursday Post: Welcome to my World
3 December 2015
I arrived back at work on Monday after three weeks away. I had left just after the grand reopening of the newly refurbished SPL, and was sad to leave the glittering space filled with so much light and laughter,...The Thursday Post: Washing my hands in the Danube
5 November 2015
Image: Czech Republic - Woods in the Moravian Cast by Lukes_photos, under a Creative Commons licence.The Thursday Post: Do Not Enter My Soul In Your Shoes
27 August 2015
2013-12-06_22h39c (Natasha Kanapé Fontaine) by blogocram, under a Creative Commons licence
Make It Innu
4 August 2015
'We are rare
we are rich like the land
we dream.' 'Tshissinuatshitakana' / 'Message Sticks', Josephine Bacon It's midnight in May and I'm floating in a swimming pool under palm trees and stars in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with Josephine Bacon, poet, lyricist and force of...The Thursday Post: Festival World
25 June 2015
It's been a whirlwind of poetry recently as I was reading at Peter Arnott's Moon Country Nights at the Tron in Glasgow last night, where a host of performers shared their work and we were all spellbound by Peter's gripping...The Thursday Post: EIBF 2015 Highlights
11 June 2015
Around the world in 80 poets? Well, not quite, but almost. The Edinburgh International Book Festival was launched yesterday in the splendid Central Hall, light streaming through its windows. The Central Hall was built in 1901 by the Methodist...The Thursday Post: Homage to Tsvetaeva
19 February 2015
Marina Tsvetaeva by seriykotik1970, under a Creative Commons licence At home in Moscow – where the domes are burning,
at home in Moscow – in the sound of bells…