Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
LGBT people born today: 1906 – Luchino Visconti – Italian Director – Died 17 th March 1976 1916 – John Burnside – US Inventor – Died 14 th September 2008 1943 – Casey Donovan – US Porn – Died 10 th August 1987 1946 – Michelle Cliff – Jamaican / US Author / Poet / Literary Critic 1961 – KD Lang – Canadian Singer...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Author John Burnside finds inspiration for his supernatural stories in the eerie landscapes and deserted fishing towns of Norway's Andøya island All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar. It is a time for reflection, for taking a moment to confer with my personal ghosts –...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... (and some fourteen images, ten devoted to St Kilda), Ronald Blythe (‘Family Circles'), John Burnside (‘Amnesia'), Douglas Dunn (‘Instructions to a Saintly Poet'), Robert Macfarlane (on Eric Ravilious), Robin Robertson (a long poem on ‘Leaving St Kilda') with much more besides, including work by new young writers on: Jura, and Cornwall; and in Gaelic (St Kildan...
