Reports

21st April The Boathouse Aberdour
Present: Jim McCarthy, Gordon Peters, Norman Bissell, Bill Eddie, Tessa Ransford, Nanon McManus, Steve Pardue, Elizabeth Rimmer, Fiona Byrne-Sutton, Angela Taylor, Bill Taylor (Scottish Centre for Geopoetics) and Mairi Heneghan, Graham Leicester and Andrew Lyon (International Futures Forum).
Jim McCarthy opened the meeting by thanking the IFF for their excellent hospitality.

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The name of Kenneth White is now generally associated with the opening up of a new field in Scottish thought. In this lecture he provided a re-reading of certain Scottish writers, while touching on themes such as localism and globalism, poetics and philosophy, identity and creativity. Chaired by Donny O’Rourke. Read more…

An audio interview with Catherine, where she discusses the significance of Tony’s work and reads from “Walk and Talk”, can be downloaded from the Textualities website using the link below. http://textualities.net/tag/tony-mcmanus/

GOING WITH THE FLOW What do you do when there’s a power cut at the start of your Powerpoint presentation to a large audience in Cullipool Hall on the first morning of the Natural Life on Luing Geopoetics Weekend? If you’re Bill Eddie (not Oddie), ornithologist, botanist and leading member Read more…