The year has been flying in. The years seem to come and go faster with age. However, it’s been a productive year in many ways. I managed to finish my novel I Want to Live about the last years in the life of George Orwell and am confident it will be published next year, 70 years after Orwell finished writing Nineteen Eighty-Four on the Isle of Jura. I can see part of the northern end […]
Editorial Stravaig issue 5, 2016 Each issue of Stravaig has its own internal logic. In the case of this issue the invitation that went out was for essays, poems and images in some way related to geopoetics, a very wide remit. As a result, the work that came in was extremely varied in content and for a long time it was difficult to see how it could work together. However, once Jane Verburg, the winning […]
WEDNESDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2014 Seize The Day! On the eve of the most important day in Scottish history for over 300 years it’s difficult to concentrate on anything else. It’s time for us all to decide – between more of the same, and worse, from the UK parties and the prospect of a better future for the people of Scotland, and, indeed, the rest of the world. In my view it’s not just about a […]
I suppose it all began when I was a child. The earliest holidays I can remember were to places like Cullercoats and Dunbar on the east coast. Later on we went to Girvan and Dunoon in the west, but it was always to the coast we went on holiday. Somewhere there’s a small black and white photo of me being hurled in a pushchair to Cullercoats beach. I can still remember the long journey we […]