Comments for Website and blog of the Scottish poet Andrew Philip

Comment on How Every Breath May Count by The Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship | Website and blog of the Scottish poet Andrew Philip

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:33:19 +0000

[…] support and encouragement that he gave. For one thing, he made sure that Creative Scotland funded Kristin Linklater’s voice workshop at Cove Park, which was crucial for me in breaking open the voice of that […]

Comment on The Intolerable Wrestle With Words by Andrew Philip

Andrew Philip — Sun, 12 May 2013 19:50:39 +0000

Thanks, Michael. Yes, I would. I have been considering that. It’s just a matter of finding the time and energy necessary to get it into the proper shape.

Comment on The Intolerable Wrestle With Words by michael9murray

michael9murray — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:37:24 +0000

This is really good.
Would you consider putting it all out as a pamphlet, or in book form?

Comment on Next Week’s Readings by Coming Up: the Lit & Phil | Website and blog of the Scottish poet Andrew Philip

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:02:12 +0000

[...] wait for this gig. I read at the Lit & Phil as part of a fundraiser for the library with Rob A Mackenzie and several Red Squirrel Press poets [...]

Comment on A Long Time in Poetics by The Translator

The Translator — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:18:02 +0000

Excellent news Andy; we’ll be buying!

Comment on On Having Dreamt of Home by A Long Time in Poetics | Website and blog of the Scottish poet Andrew Philip

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:53:01 +0000

[...] enriched. It felt like a significant weekend in ways that are hard to articulate but, as with my time at Greenbelt the year before last, it quietly reinforced the sense that this work of poetry is, for me, also a [...]

Comment on Nether Springs and North Ends by A Long Time in Poetics | Website and blog of the Scottish poet Andrew Philip

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:52:58 +0000

[...] returned home on Sunday from the retreat tired and not exhausted but enriched. It felt like a significant weekend in ways that are hard to [...]

Comment on Reading, Do You Find Yourself … ? by Andrew Philip

Andrew Philip — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:49:02 +0000

Tricky, isn’t it. “We” might suffice in some cases. It is sometimes used as a generic pronoun. In others, “you” may well be the best option. There is also, however, the imperative, which might work in some places.

Comment on Reading, Do You Find Yourself … ? by michael9murray

michael9murray — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:05:46 +0000

I have used the ‘you’ too – I was aiming at a distancing that had not the cut-off of the third person, but still a linking intimacy. Our borders are not set no matter how language and logic would have us. The piece written as ‘you’ about feeding a bird, was trying for an identification with the bird and its experience, against all that philosophy and reasoning dictate: it was not I, or he, but a kind of we. And as I was the only human-language particpant… how do you do a we that also has the distance of the I? Tu, or Du would probably be acceptable – but in English?
Hmm.

Comment on Explore the North End of your Scots! by The Translator

The Translator — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:54:51 +0000

Thanks Andy – looking forward to it!