Poetry. WISH I WAS HERE represents the diversity of languages, dialects, and cultures in contemporary Scotland. Edited by Kevin MacNeil and Alec Finlay, it includes new, up-and-coming and established poets from, amongst others, Gaelic, Asian-Scots, African and Shetlandic backgrounds. WISH I WAS HERE also includes photographic portraits of the poets, and a CD.

Wish I Was Here: A Scottish Multicultural Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Morning Star Editions

Poetry. Art. Music. A collaboration, with poems by the Richard Tuttle, drawings by Heather Deedman, and an audio CD, "Slide Sunset," by Zoe Irvine. Paperback in full color.

Cowboy Story

Tuttle, Richard

Deedman, Heather

Irvine, Zoe

Arts & Photography

Art. Poetry. SELECTED WALKS is the most recent of Richard Long's artist books, and marks a return to the radical simplicity of earlier works. Long is an internationally renowned artist whose work explores the landscape and the landscape tradition. This book takes an innovative approach to Long's use of text: a constant in his work. This book was co-published with Centre for Artist Books, based in new Dundee Contemporary Art Centre, which exhibited a selection of Long's books in Autumn of 1999. This paperback chapbook is bound in pulpboard.

Selected Walks: 1979 - 1996

Long, Richard

Poetry. TURNING TOWARD LIVING is a collection of circle poems written by Alec Finlay and other contributors. Alec Finlay is an artist and a poet, recently artist in residence at THE BALTIC (Gateshead). His press Morning Star (1990 -2003) has published more than 50 titles. Alec coordinates the renga platform, a shared writing project: poetrycircus, a series of readings and performances and a new collaborative piece entitled Sewing Circle, as part of his residency at the BALTIC. Check out other SPD titles by Platform Projects including MESOSTIC HERBARIUM and THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS.

Turning Toward Living: Circle Poems

Finlay, Alec

Poetry. Multimedia. "MESOSTIC HERBARIUM is an album of phytological and mycological poems collected from people in many countries...the mesostic is guided by certain rules: choose a plant, its name gives a stem; compose a poem, one word per line...MESOSTIC HERBARIUM relates to orders of knowledge, in particular botany...Through these poems we can gauge a wide-ranging cultural vision of nature, for there is an anthropology at work here..."--Alec Finlay. Includes CD-ROM of WORDWOOD, a collection of animated mesostic poetry by pupils at schools in Durham Sunderland Region and Perthshire. Check out other SPD titles by Platform Projects including THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS and TURNING TOWARD LIVING.

Mesostic Herbarium

Poetry. THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS collects questions asked by children aged 3-5 years, as compiled by Alec Finlay. The book is made in part by Creative Partnerships which works to give school children throughout England the opportunity to develop their potential, their ambition, their creativity and imagination through sustainable partnerships with creative and cultural organizations, businesses and individuals. Check out other SPD titles by Platform Projects including MESOSTIC HERBARIUM and TURNING TOWARD LIVING.

The Book of Questions

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