Sally Evans
photo courtesy of Malcolm Handoll of Five Senses http://www.allfivesenses.com. Malcolm writes on walking in the countryside, including barefoot walking, and navigating without the help of instruments by what you can tell around you. See his web site above. The place is a favourite, Wade's Bridge in the Sma Glen.
Click here for An interview with Sally by Ryan Van Winkle, May 2010. Mostly about Poetry Scotland. Speaking of which, Callander Poetry Weekend will be coming up again shortly, 3rd to 5th September. It has a page of its own on this site where the programme will be detailed.
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A new direction for desktopsallye
I am now beginning to sell books by internet from desktopsallye, and I find this almost as startling - though not quite - as when we first sold books at street markets, working towards our bookshop, some twenty five years ago.
Here's a beautiful Bede in Latin : Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum recensuit Josephus Stevenson. Londinii Sumptibus Societatis 1838 in a beautiful maroon morocco half binding . £100.OK that's not cheap, and within this site, as in our real bookshop I realise we must have cheaper and expensive books side by side. I'm going at it gently - when I sell one book I'll replace it with two, and add other books as they seem appropriate. You can be sure of excellent condition and exact descriptions of any books I offer for sale.
Bookselling has moved steadily in the direction of internet sales, to the point where however effective our real-world bookshop is (and it is shaping up as the best one in Scotland for books in good condition and bindings) it is worth our having some presence on the internet, if only to persuade you to come to Callander, Scotland and visit our lovely shop.
With my training in library cataloguing, bookselling experience and my experience of using the internet social network, I am setting off on this adventure completely independently. Book collectors and specialists in all our subjects which include Scottish, poetry, literature, philosophy, history, Latin, Greek, natural history and gardening and that wonderful category RANDOM, will we hope be looking in to desktopsallye for our offers of quality books.
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. In fact I'll probably be updating it more often. Just skip over any booklists you stumble on, or read them for fun, because I am going to write them with entertainment in mind, as well as accuracy.
I have added a Visitors Book and I would be very glad to see old and new users sign there.
SallyE June 2010
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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
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
New book arrives: The Honey SellerMid May:
See the new book page left:
an experiment with Search Inside
(to get one contact Sally see foot of page)
First of May: It was a good ball while we kicked it: Sally blogs about facebook
AprilDay in Edinburgh: more on the SPL event
Poem-a-day see left menu
Real bees arriveBees settle
Elephant painting: video on The Bees the Book page
New! March: Draft of a poem, with help Poets fill spaceGlasgow
Clock Tower and Eucryphia, Cambo house
Paul and Sandi pay a special visit to Callander: see blog page
New! January: Aconites Inversnaid
New! February: This page: 25 Things. Laureates.
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
Watch Nora the pussycat play the piano and these clever idiots jumping about on the floor piano
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
Kings Bookshop, 91-93 Main Street, Callander Scotland FK17 8BQ
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