A new exhibit Border Crossings opened this summer at the McManus Galleries. It highlights Scots artists who often went off to other lands to find fame. Like Eduardo Paolozzi: Check out the McManus page dedicated to it, but I will share a couple more here. I drafted this post months ago and then found it…
Tag: Scots
The Rowan Tree
Poem by Lady Nairne (1766-1845), born Carolina Oliphant: THE ROWAN TREE Oh rowan tree, oh rowan tree, Thou’lt aye be dear to me, Entwined thou art wi mony ties, O’ hame and infancy. Thy leaves were aye the first o’ spring, Thy flow’rs the simmer’s pride; There was nae sic a bonny tree In a’…
FFB: A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
I don’t know why I put this off so long: maybe it was knowing it was set in the publishing world. That sort of roman à clef doesn’t usually appeal to me much — possibly because there is nothing much that will surprise me about the publishing world anymore. But dashing off on the train to…