http://textualities.net Online Literary Magazine Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:49:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is hinted at points in this novel that words are a virus preventing people from inner silence. If this is indeed the case then it seems like Mr Burroughs is gleefully using this principle to abuse us. When any single paragraph might have hundreds of meanings and is loaded ... http://textualities.net/fergus/depthless-ruminations/ Visual poetry is under represented and under published in Scotland, so i was keen to show some here. Temerity & Secret Talk Pluent Kundalini Concrete Circumnavigation (Or The Envy of Democracies) Affectation of the sages. Such airs! Such impertinence! We muster a common cause. A cold snap snaps shut. If I wake in time, I'll be there. ... http://textualities.net/admin/stephen-nelson/ inspired by my babysitter's boyfriend, i'm studying the paintings of Lorser Feitelson. i have had a monstrous week and a half. a week and a half (and a half) of large spilling slices. they suck me in to dream like crazy of L.A. as though i were suffering from a slipped disk, i'm cultivating inner tranquility and bright, ... http://textualities.net/admin/colin-herd/ Jennie Renton asked us to take over this website for a month and to do something with it; the best thing to do, we thought, would be to invite poets we know across lowland Scotland that we've either worked with, performed with, or whose work we like.  over the next ... http://textualities.net/admin/dorothy-alexander/ The foremost rule of conjuring is that the secret of a trick should never be revealed. It is therefore with some trepidation that Gordon Bruce and Bob Read's engaging and entertaining accounts of the hunt for the mysterious Arthur Watson are followed by an exposé - a biography of their ... http://textualities.net/richard-h-evans/arthur-watson-historian-of-legerdeman-discovered/ It is a pleasure, not to mention a challenging and rewarding experience, to immerse oneself in this epic poem of discovery over and over again, fishing out a new catch every time. From the Ganga to the Tay twists and turns through the pages in rivers of narrative on the ... http://textualities.net/admin/from-the-ganga-to-the-tay/ ROBERT BURNS To A Mouse On Turning Her Up In Her Nest, With The Plough, November 1785 Ad Murem Nidis Aratro Eversis from James Grahame Poems in English, Scotch, and Latin  Printed for the Author by J. Neilson Paisley 1794 The Burns industry in Scotland enjoyed a busy year in 2009, what with the Homecoming Festival, a three-day conference at Glasgow University, ... http://textualities.net/michael-lister/a-moose-loose-aboot-the-hoose/       ‘Don't expect too much,' Joanna urges. ‘It's what?  Thirty years?  It can't be the same.'    ‘I won't,' I say, but my excitement rises with every kilometre that takes us closer to the white house beneath the lemon tree.  *    I had been walking and hitching across Crete in late summer, ... http://textualities.net/keith-aitchison/yanniss-harbour/ How did the project begin? It all began with working on the Lyne Water in the Borders. One or two of the springs that feed into it have a lot of associated local folklore, which I realised ties into world folklore about wells and springs. I remember hanging over the edge ... http://textualities.net/jennie-renton/valerie-gillies-interview/ ‘Biodiplomat' Iain Orr, a former British Consul-General in Shanghai, shares his thoughts on diversity, islands and albatrosses. Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in earlier times, and that the truth of the matter can only ... http://textualities.net/jennie-renton/interview-with-iain-orr/