The inspiration for this talk comes from an exhibition of work by the artist David Lemm, at the Edinburgh Printmakers’ Gallery, in the spring of …
The Evergreen
A World in Action – Elizabeth Darling
They are striking images. We notice first the backdrop of the Salisbury Crags; next the chimney stacks, oast houses, the walls and roofs of densely-packed …
The Grippe – Phoebe Weller
Our Thomas says it all began when we closed the shop early because of the Beast from the East. He says after I left he …
Still Being: Heron in the Botanics – Christine De Luca
Still BeingHeron in the Botanics I love your oneness with a restless world,your contentment with a proferred habitat:embodied concentration, each synapse static,while I barely linger …
Johnston Terrace – Nancy Somerville
JOHNSTON TERRACE3rd October 2010 We are grounded,too intent on gutter-gazingto soar. We lean over the wall not seeing what’s before us,peering down through the canopyof autumn …
Why the Evergreen?
In his introduction to the first volume of The Evergreen: A New Season in the North (2014), Sean Bradley explains the choice of the Word …
If the City Should Fail to Work – Ali Millar
My city is a fiction. Dreamt up first by my mother who studied here, and when we came up from the country – to break …
Adventures in Austeritania – Eddie Gibbons
Austeritania (aka ‘The Brutish Isles’)is famous for its bakeries and literature;Jane Austere’s Mother’s Pride & Prejudicebeing a prime example of writing fromthe quills and inkwells …
Old Town, New Story – Kate Downie
These charcoal drawings and the subsequent etching were created in the manner of a walking/drawing conversation with the High Street of Edinburgh in 2004. This …
Old-World Verse and Scottish Renascence: Flourishing Evergreen – Elizabeth Elliott
Describing the origins of the Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal, Patrick Geddes looks back to December 1894, when ‘two or three of the young writers and …