Here are a few photos from the
Hidden Door festival in Edinburgh. It was a huge affair with countless bands, poets, and artists combining for a feast of aural and visual art through an entire weekend. The Guardian
presents a flavour of what was happening, and so did the
Scotsman newspaper. The photos below (kindly provided by
Andy Philip) are all from an installation built around my poem, 'The Organist'. It's a relatively new unpublished poem centring on the walk a minister makes to his church on a Sunday morning. Thematically, it deals with religious faith and emotion. I'm astonished by the artwork. Quite amazing to see the way the artists - Fiona Nealon, Susie Wilson and
Jennifer Bruce - engaged with the poem, and it makes me want to do more such collaboration.
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| Fascinating, that pink hand daubed on the Bible, and the poem fragments scrawled on top of the cut-up Bible circles... |
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| The words, 'My mind is his bootleg cathedral' and the other fragments come from the poem, which also features the hymn 'All Things Bright and Beatiful'. As for the bit in the middle, is that really what I think it is!? |
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| Paper art, presumably more from the Bible, stuck to the walls |
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| You could stand in the middle of all this and listen to me reading the poem, which is printed on the table below. Nice to see that someone actually did. Thank you! |
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