NEWS:
Pipped at the post by my other publisher !!
Tony Lewis-Jones of Firewater Press, Bristol has published an e-book version of The Honey Seller. To buy, Look Inside or to read 2 free sample poems and reviews, go here: The Honey Seller
then look for Tony Lewis-Jones' Significant Others in the same series.
CALLANDER POETRY WEEKEND 6-8 September 2013. Plans are well in hand, see Callander Poetry Weekend page on left menu.
Hoping the paper book POETIC ADVENTURES (below) will be ready by then. 
diehard are working on our first ebook, see cover above. Dominique Carton is the gifted photographer and book designer. The text is ready, we are on a steep learning curve.
To be published simultaneously in paperback and ebook early next year.
Filmpoem 23: Mirror , premiered at Callander Poetry Weekend 2012(see the special page).
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TWO POEMS: the first a bit of nonsense and the second a more serious summer poem, to welcome you into the site. Both spit new,from July 2012
E J Thribb on my Summer Dress
Well. Summer Dress.
I never wore you.
You hung on the rail
with such hopes of sunshine,
such promises
of gay abandon.
... You were light, satiny, sequinned.
But the summer was
constantly wet.
Your time is gone now.
I cannot imagine
wearing you.
Your life with me
did not work out.
I no longer fancy you.
It would have been nice
to be intimate with you.
I see it is raining again.
Goodbye, Summer Dress.
The pearl that vanished
Picking tiny strawberries
hampered by green grass
I remember how the pearl
rolled into the grass
at the start of our story
and forever lost
represented our wishes
as though we were there
many centuries unborn
while language would change
and poetry would not change.The strawberries are pinpricks
of blood over years.
Their sweetness is sustenance.
The pearl that vanished
as unblemished as any
of the orient
came not by ship, was found in
a northern river.As long as poets remain,
grass is rough and green.
Poetry is delicate.
Click here for New Linear Perspectvies interview with me and Andrew F Giles, November 2011, in which I talk about Poetry Scotland, The Bees and the bookshop.
Earlier An interview with Sally by Ryan Van Winkle, May 2010. Mostly about Poetry Scotland, and also the Callander Poetry Weekend which takes place each September. The Poetry Weekend has a page of its own on this site.
New: Many of my earlier published poems are now posted on the Poemhunter website and more will follow. It is great to be able to gather poems from disparate sources into one convenient place. Please read some of my Poemhunter poems here (you are welcome to leave comments in the comment boxes too) while for magazines see this one!
For info about my various books, please see left menu, and for a quick look at pics of the books, see this albumwhile for a less than complete list of books (main page) and translations and pamphlets see
http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/contacts/sally-evans
and see some of my poetry reviews in the Stirling Observer on this page.
we've got something for you
Hear me sing!
Swirled colour
Light pillar photo Pat Morrissey
no prentice pillar
in cool interior
plain smooth stone
the artist sun
and new stained glass
congregation absent
cushioned chairs
mind their history
oaken furniture
Knox's pulpit
ecclesiastical
decoration
poverty riches
dearth of images
among these colours
someone prepares
flowers on a table
we walk round
the familiar
unfamiliar
(Dunfermline Abbey)
(Durham Cathedral)
Stirling parish church
all their trammels
of power and art
stone more than words
changeable windows,
glass and sunlight,
slabs and weather
illuminated
in an instant
around a curve.
Sally Evans
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Bookselling announcement
I hope that one day, reader, you will come to Callander, Scotland and visit our lovely bookshop.
Our subjects include Scottish, poetry, literature, philosophy, history, Latin, Greek, natural history and gardening and that wonderful category RANDOM.
You can be sure of excellent condition and exact descriptions of any books I offer for sale.
All friends will be able to use the site exactly as before, for its poems and news, bees and gardens, its personal element and some additional pages accessible from the Poetry Scotland website. Just skip over any booklists you stumble on, or read them for fun.
I have added a Visitors Book and I would be very glad to see old and new users sign there.
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the start of a new collection of fascinating bee data
The decade's turn was marked by prolonged white-out, see Lake of Menteith above, and see the Curling episode on *start here blog.* Other things that happened a long time ago, in 2009, see below
*Viewing Tower, Flanders Moss: two great pictures to start the new diehard poetry news page
*Welsh, Gaelic and poetry in Snowdonia: SNAP to the Guardian (I blogged this 30 Nov, they blogged same pic with a poetry item 1 Dec.) see start here blog.
*Rachel and Star in Poland on this week page
*Gatehouse of Fleet & poem for Adrian Mitchell
*Liverpool trip: this week page *Deer ticks: garden page
*Bho Leabhar Latha Maria Malibran
*Callander Poetry Weekend 09 Gallery and account left menu
*Which science fiction writer made Loch Katrine disappear?
*start here* blog
Poetry Scotland now at Issue 62 Link to Colin Will's PS Website
Blaeberries
Let's go pick blaeberries,
strong, dark, sweet blaeberries
that lie in lairs
as though they know
the country's dangerous.
They hide dark wine-blue hue
among mild red-green leaves
on slopes that stalk the sun.
Let's stay an hour or so,
pretend we live like this
always, provisioning
this fruit we breakfast on,
freeze down, consume as pies,
juice thickened by heat,
sweetened with honey. High
on high braes in July,
blaeberries, earthy.
Let's go pick blaeberries
Let's go seek, let's go early.
Let's go pick blaeberries
Beth Junor took this pic of our favourite Trossachs dining room and stopping off point. Ben A'an behind. Has to be a favourite pic. It's not even so much the photography as the place feeling like part of our living space. The Blaeberries poem appeared in The Great North Road.
Callander Poetry Weekend 2009 -- now with its own page see left menu.
Women Makars and LaureatesPoetry Site Links (1) Byron's Bedroom
(3) Hill Ornithological Collection
(4) Recording of Yeats reading The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Broken Holmes and After see my blog
This Week page comes back to life with Doune Castle pictures
Portrait gallery: Women Makars of Scotland: Please scroll down
(to get one contact Sally see foot of page)
Bees settle
Elephant painting: video on The Bees the Book page
Clock Tower and Eucryphia, Cambo house
Click for: Sestinas Gaarrye Jokey Speech Cambo Steampunk
New Topics Blog attached to site: (enables blog feeds to facebook.)
Goosanders
Kilmartin
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Above, L-R Sheena Blackhall, Magi Gibson. Centre, Margaret Gillies Brown, all of whom by chance plan to be at Callander Poetry Weekend this year...
Hi Sally - couldnt resist a peek at Byron's bedroom, which inspired the following:
Fallen Lucifers
We love our fallen Lucifers..
Lord Byron, Errol Flynn
With their fires forever burning
And their morals in the binThey're so like an Xmas pudding
With the sixpences stuffed in
They're rich and mad and bad for us,
There's nought so sweet as sin!
Sheena Blackhall , Boxing Day
NEW: "The apostrophe is disappearing and will disappear altogether by the end of the century," said Dr Treharne. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1055772.stm
desktopsallye is still entirely semi-colon free.You will also notice an absence of apostrophes in well known elided words, in cases where there is no ambiguity. I never had an its/it's problem, but if you still use its/it's, here is why youre a duffer if you cant do it:
a) his hers its. b) it's = it is every time, except when it's = it has.
Contact me: If you like it, hate it, want to make comments or suggestions, get hold of my books, enquire about the bookshop or just say hello, you can contact me as follows:
email: sally dot king4 at btinternet dot com
phone UK [0]1877 339449
sallyevanz on facebook, Twitter and Skype, and Sally Evans on poemhunter.com
Kings Bookshop, 91-93 Main Street, Callander Scotland FK17 8BQ
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