Turbines
Bronwen Sleigh Turbine II , Etching Gargantuan impossible giants, ponderous and unsteady above the landscape, as if one clumsy misstep...
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Essays, Poetry & Articles
on diverse subjects in no particular order
Philip Dundas
Oct 11 min read
The Outliers
A poem inspired by the film 'What do artists do all day?' about the artist and master printmaker Norman Ackroyd.
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Philip Dundas
Oct 15 min read
Encounter - Norman Ackroyd CBE RA
Encounters - exploring meetings with artists and their work...
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Philip Dundas
May 19, 20231 min read
love poems
moon That night⎯ the night he came back. Standing at the door, saying he wanted to stay, ‘Could I? Please.’ Uncertain for a moment, I...
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Philip Dundas
Apr 13, 20233 min read
The Tamer - a poem
When I was a cub you reared me by hand Teaching me to feel no pain, So that when you whipped me, I would forget. Parading in your top...
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Philip Dundas
Apr 11, 20231 min read
Torridon Croft - a poem
winds claw at the glass; the old man reflected that his life had been the same ⎯ looking out beyond the black moor to an unspoken...
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Philip Dundas
Mar 24, 20238 min read
Scotland - a hand on history
"The mark of a Scot of all classes is that he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive...
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Philip Dundas
Feb 21, 20232 min read
The Perfect English Breakfast
How to make the perfect English breakfast
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Philip Dundas
Feb 3, 20235 min read
Victims Finally Have a Voice
published in The Times Scotland 03/02/23 It’s a cold winter’s afternoon in 1978. My mother draws up in her car to collect me from outside...
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Philip Dundas
Jul 13, 20222 min read
Toyboys & Tentacles
Early lessons in love and crustacea
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Philip Dundas
May 27, 20221 min read
The Buchaille
Each vertebrae and tendon is stretched taut in the ascent. Movement hugged into the spirit from whence it came, each manoeuvre, like a...
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Philip Dundas
Apr 11, 20227 min read
Holy Isle - Finding Peace
It’s absolutely calm. The mist hangs on the surface of the sea. It feels as though Charon, the boatman is transporting me over the Styx...
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Philip Dundas
Jan 15, 20212 min read
Scotch Broth - Chieftain of Soups
The finest soup...
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Philip Dundas
Apr 11, 20157 min read
A Collected Brilliance
(published in The Scotsman 05/03/2003) Rumours abound. The Edinburgh literati are excited. There is a common theme in bar chat among the...
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Philip Dundas
Jul 6, 20141 min read
Lindos - an elegy
Piping bats tarry night, the sea sound echoes the wash of a different shore, the heart-beat of life here echoes another song. ‘Now...
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Philip Dundas
Jul 13, 20087 min read
Winifred Nicholson in Scotland
first published in The Scotsman ‘This place looks even more beautiful this year in stormy weather, and is even harder to paint. The high...
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