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                           the last couple of entries are poems; there's more in the same series
                            (alongside the latest from the deer path to my door set) at
                                Gists & Piths - see below

June 16th
read bliss is bliss at Gists & Piths

January 25th

Now available to read at Free Verse - some of my poems in a special
supplement; including some of the poems in

From Kyoto to Carbeth: poems & plants of the hills

(Scotsman review of this show at: REVIEW)

For four years I've been collaborating with Takaya Fujii in Kyoto. Each day Takaya walks the 88 shrines of the pilgrim path on Omuro, the little hill behind his house in the foothills north west of the city. I've walked this path with him many times. Here he watches the unfolding of the seasons & each month selects a plant relevant to both the season & to the culture of Japan. He makes an arrangement of this,

sends me the name of the plant & I make a poem concerning this plant, if I know it, or a Scottish equivalent. The poem is translated, given to a calligrapher, Seigan Urai, who makes his versions

& to a ceramic artist, Mikako Kawai

who designs & makes a vase for that specific plant. All these artists have an extraordinary grasp of plants.

Poems, translations, calligraphy & ceramics will be shown at the Galerie Weissraum, Kyoto from January 10th until 31st 2008, (where it is called from plant to plant).

After that, Kyoto to Carbeth will be at the
Collins Gallery, Glasgow 23rd February - 5th April 2008
Hill House, Helensburgh 14th April - 18th May 2008
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries 24th May - 26th June 2008
Scottish Poetry Library during the Edinburgh Festival
1st August - 12th September 2008.

There will be a book of all poems & translations, with images of the calligraphy & ceramics by Morven Gregor.

December 2007

A sequence from Printed on Water has been chosen for inclusion in the Scottish Poetry Library's 20 Best Poems for 2007, edited by Alan Spence. You can read it here: from the deer path to my door.