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Tuesday 31 July 2012

27/100 - Lift from us the curse of time (11:Thirty-third Stone)


One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.
These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.
(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)


Monday 30 July 2012

26/100 - Rollers, oxen, rope (10:Fortysecond stone)


One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.
These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.
(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)

Sunday 29 July 2012

25/100 - Between cornstalk and fish (08:Fortieth stone)


One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.
These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.
(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)


Saturday 28 July 2012

24/100 - Stone waits, half hewn (07 :Fiftieth stone)


One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.
These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.
(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)

George Mackay Brown, Brodgar Poems, Orkney, 100 days of summer

Friday 27 July 2012

23/100 - broke from the cloud (06:Forty-fifth stone)


One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.
These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.
(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)


Thursday 26 July 2012

22/100 - and the circle not closed (04 :The Fiftieth Stone: Plague and Pillage)


One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.
These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.
(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)

Wednesday 25 July 2012

21/100 - Release us, stone (02: Thirty-seventh stone)


One of fifteen digital prints (from a series of thirty-one) made in 2004 in response to George Mackay Brown’s  ‘Brodgar Poems’ which celebrates the building of the Ring of Brodgar, in Stenness, Orkney.   
These originally appeared at the ‘Poetry, place and time’ exhibition in the Orkney Gallery.
(I’m on holiday from day 21 until day 35 (25th July-8th August)


Tuesday 24 July 2012

20/100 - A random, ribald song


From a pub door here and there
A random, ribald song
Leaks on the air

[from ‘The lodging’, George Mackay Brown, from 'Selected Poems 1954-1992']

off-topic because I am on holiday (currently Manchester airport)

Monday 23 July 2012

19/100 - No star shines there



The blackness is as solid as a
stone that locks a tomb
No star shines there

[from Maeshowe midwinter, George Mackay Brown Following a lark]