Geopoetics News October 2013
Stravaig: Call for Submissions
Issue 3 of Stravaig will be published in April 2014. Submissions – poetry, prose, essays, artwork – on the theme of geopoetics in practice should be sent to burnedthumb@gmail.com, cc to Norman Bissell normanbissell@btinternet.com by 1st December 2013.
Issue 3 of Stravaig will be published in April 2014. Submissions – poetry, prose, essays, artwork – on the theme of geopoetics in practice should be sent to burnedthumb@gmail.com, cc to Norman Bissell normanbissell@btinternet.com by 1st December 2013.
Images to accompany essays and poems are particularly welcome. We would like this to be a bumper issue since free access to the journal will only be available to members. Extracts will be available on our website but the full issue will cost £5 to non-members. Stravaig#2 can be read here:https://www.geopoetics.org.uk/online-journal-stravaig/stravaig-issue-2/
The Film We Are Northern Lights vividly reveals our intimate relationship with the earth that is Scotland in all its wonderful diversity of people and place. Watching it is an immensely uplifting and inspiring glass half-full experience that makes you feel proud of who we are and can be. If you haven’t seen it in any of its previous 200 screenings you can now watch it online here: http://muvi.es/w3598/202995.
Please vote for it for the BAFTA Scotland Audience Award. Voting is underway and ends on Tuesday 29 October. It’s a very close contest and every vote counts. It’s not every day 121 co-directors (including me) get a chance to win a BAFTA! Vote here: http://www.cineworld.co.uk/baftascotland. It only takes a moment.
An Aberlady Lunch and Stravaig on Saturday 23 November 2013
Gather for lunch at 12 noon at the Old Aberlady Inn and enjoy an informal discussion about geopoetics and its relationship to communities and networks of individuals. Join us for a guided walk at 2pm round Aberlady Bay Local Nature Reserve in the company of birder Bill Eddie and other informed naturalists. Thousands of Pink-footed Geese and other wildlife are to be seen. RSVP to me if you’re coming.
Kenneth White Books
The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at Aberdeen University has published three new works by Kenneth White. Ideas of Order at Cape Wrath, a collection of essays on cultural politics, Latitudes & Longitudes, a new collection of poetry, and The Winds of Vancouver which charts his travels in British Columbia and Alaska. They can be obtained from the RIISS at: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/publications.shtml
Many of his works, including his introduction to Geopoetics Le Plateau de l’albatros have appeared only in French, but all of them will now be made available in English in a new Collected Works to be published by the RIISS. Each volume will have a new introduction by the author. Further information can be obtained from Professor Cairns Craig, cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk.
Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria by member Martina Kolb, University of Toronto Press shows how this coastal area of Italy influenced three seminal German-writing modernists – Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Gottfried Benn – whose encounters with Ligurian lands and seas led to an innovative geopoetic fusion of word and world. It is available from http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/author/MARTINA-KOLB?cm_sp=brcr-_-bdp-_-author.
I was pleased to welcome Martina to Luing this summer and to have interesting geopoetics conversations and walks with her and Christian McEwen.
Christian McEwen: Summer Isles Retreat on Tanera Mor 30 August – 6 September 2014 A Week in Paradise of art making, writing, poetry and reflection. Full details and booking: http://www.wildtiles.co.uk/world_enough_and_time.php.
Working the Tweed Project Room Exhibition at Harestanes Countryside Visitor Centre, Ancrum, Jedburgh TD8 6UQ until 31 October. Open Every Day 10am – 5pm. Free. A collaboration between artists and river specialists for the Year of Natural Scotland 2013 including member Claire Pencak. See www.workingthetweed.co.uk
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Norman Bissell
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