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Mountain, Coast, River: November on a Rugged Coast: Reading Time and Thinking Space.
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Mountain, Coast, River. Monday, 3 November 2014. November on a Rugged Coast: Reading Time and Thinking Space. Currently being crossed by huge autumn migrations. Seemed like a good place to contemplate the meanings of Time. Arve Henriksen's, The Nature of Connections,. Nils Okland's, Homage to Ole Bull. Instead of the usual reams of fiction and poetry I chose three slim poetic collections: Louise Gluck, Faithful and Virtuous Night. WS Merwin, The Moon Before Morning. Niall Campbell, Moontide. November its...
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Mountain, Coast, River: Nights Among the Brocken Spectres
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Mountain, Coast, River. Friday, 5 June 2015. Nights Among the Brocken Spectres. May means university exams: on campus most weekdays and marking hard at weekends. Although it's usually possible to get away for a few days (the hardest work tends to collect in a few intense bursts), weather and leisure never synchronised this time round. Feels very odd that I had time to do this. At the same time last year. So I've been taking trips to remind myself that, when nights are short, it is. From the Footless Crow...
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Mountain, Coast, River: June 2015
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Mountain, Coast, River. Wednesday, 17 June 2015. Summer Snow and Midnight Light: Glen Etive and Loch Quoich. With 2015's examining done by the start of June, I decided to drastically change my reading material and with it my location. Welsh brocken spectres and sea kayaking. Had been excellent diversions, but not having made it North since November was making me restless. For the year's first northern foray I ordered an array of new books. Prose - Matthew Kelly's Quartz and Feldspar. Recent critique)....
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