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Here is a link to the Writability website and read this story called, 'The Long Man'. It is set in the chalk hills of the south-west of England and draws on a pagan substrate. Enjoy!
Check out 'The Spanish House', a new novella ofmine,set between London and Spain and between the early 1970s and theyear 2020. Song, dance, history and lunacy all feature, and there arewhiffs of Sepharad and Al Andalus - the Judeo-Islamic continuum fromwhich much that defines Spain emerged. Enjoy!
STOP PRESS: The Queens of Govan, from Scottish Opera's Five:15 Operas Made in Scotland will be performed at the Tête à Tête New Opera Festival on the 16th and 17th of August at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London. This a great festival that truly celebrates new work and is run by the fascinating Bill Bankes Jones and is absolutely the right artistic context for Five:15. Further details to follow.
Scottish Opera's adaptation of 'The Queens of Govan': February-March 2008!
At the ground-breaking 'Five:15' Show, world-renowned Kolkata (Calcutta)-based Indian maestro sarod player, Ustaad Wajahat Khan collaborates on this exciting adaptation with Nigel Osborne, internationally-acclaimed composer and Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh.
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Songs of the village idiot (8,241
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This essay, originally delivered in Kiev in 2005 and published in 'Third Text' in 2007, explores music in fiction as force for historical cognisance, as delineator of the geopoetics of locus - river, land, darkness - and in a more metaphysical, sufi vein, as potential mediator of redemption and unity. In other words, time, place and essence.
The Icarus tree - A Long Short Story
The Aerodome - A Long Short Story
The Saeling Tales - A Novella, read in full !
A portrait of Suhayl Saadi was exhibited at the Collins Gallery, Richmond Street, Glasgow from 25/8/07 till 29/9/07 in the 'Capture' exhibition by acclaimed artist, Iain Clark: www.iainclark.net |
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