Charming video on the Norman MacCaig festival up in Assynt, featuring the poet, the competition winning poem, and inspired by MacCaig the work of local artists and the poetry and illustrations by local school children. Some great shots of Suilven too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXqwJ709xM
On poets and poetry mainly............... .......... but segues into other obsessions.
Topics Poetry Dance Jazz
Stanza
Assynt
Poetry on the Lake
Save our libraries
Shetland
Iona Sense of Place
Loose Tongues
Norman MacCaig Festival
St Kilda
Makkin wi Wirds
Strokestown Poetry Festival
Venice
Artists' Books
Assynt Sense of Place
Dance
Fionna Duncan Vocal Jazz course
Merchant City Festival
The 100 Poets Gathering
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