“Response is not an abstract idea: it is wind, salt, peat, quartz, and tide; it is Sanna’s machair whispering, Ben Hiant’s sudden silhouette.”
Read Spiorad aird nam Murchan Part 22:
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#EkphrasticWriting #Ardnamurchan #LandscapePhotography
I was pleased to be able to display my interactive collage book at the launch of my poetry-film! It's a meta-ekphrastic response to some of my own ekphrastic poems www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7I3e4...
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Delighted to be nominated by @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social for the Best Microfiction Award! My hybrid #ekphrastic prose/poem text was inspired by this landscape by Thomas Gainsborough www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast... #ekphrasis #ekphrasticwriting
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The Latches of Ardnamurchan: Born from a line in M.E.M. Donaldson’s Wanderings in the West Highlands and Islands, this is a lyrical meditation on crofting ingenuity, island presence, and the quiet resilience of place. #Ardnamurchan #EkphrasticWriting #CroftingLife #InspiredByPlace #HighlandSpirit
“A broken buckle becomes a door catch. A driftwood branch finds new life.”
This is the spirit of mend and make do—where every object is a story.
Part 8 in my writing & photography series:
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#MendAndMakeDo #CroftIngenuity #HighlandSpirit #EkphrasticWriting
Kilchoan, West Ardnamurchan.
“They speak of a life where nothing is wasted, where every object carries a story.”
Read the 8th instalment in my new inspired writing & photography series:
‘The Latches of Ardnamurchan’
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#EkphrasticWriting #ArdnamurchanSpirit #CreativeWalking #MEMDonaldson
A new piece of expressive writing and photography launches tonight: The Latches of Ardnamurchan. A meditation on place, detail, and crofting spirit.
All previous installments available on the blog:
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