John
Mackie - lyrics from a life in the flux Poet John Mackie of Banff. Poet Mackie Home page of the Banff poet and lyricist John Mackie
"Creative, transformative memory is equally central to the poetry of John Mackie, who performed his gorgeously hypnotic, meditative verse — at once intellectual and intimate — as Infinite Equation #2, alongside reader Anna Tessier-Lavigne and classical guitarist Michael Moar.
Their work brought a patchwork-colourful programme to a tender close." Lisa Fraser
Special thanks to Anna Tessier-Lavigne and Michael Moar for that 2009 SOUND/Wordfringe performance.
For other collaborations with Anna, please click here.
For details of a September 2010 festival performance, please see www.newwords.co.uk
A snippet of the New Words Festival
2010 performance with Neil Hankin Performance Review
R.I.P
Mary Margaret Martin Mackie
born June 3rd 1911
died June 26th 2012
aged 101
Dawn
at Banff Bay 4.17 a.m 23rd July 2008. Photo by John
Between
the star glazed opacity of night
And the dazzling drift of a deep blue day
The sea and sun embrace
In lovers' fluent languor
In not long now
This seed will burst
On tendrils of gold
To flower today
Readings of two poems from "Love Poems For Nina Gavalen"
Recorded Work — Songs and poems on record
Halflight — A poem about Jen Paterson's breathtaking aerial dance A_Pilgrimage — For Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins.
As presented by Tilda on 9th August 2009
The
Son Of Life
— An alternative MACBETH, commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland MySpace Music Page —Including Infinite Equation poetry and music tracks and videos of poems
Poise After Rain — A moment at The Lossie Folk Festival 2009
What The Papers Say About John — Selected media coverage
Piece of Mind back on vinyl!
Originally released in 1968/9 on vinyl, re-released in CD format in 2005, this album, with John's lyrics, is back on vinyl - this time as limited edition collectors' item.
A certain amount of hyperbole has developed. For example K.J. Gustin wrote, 'Piece Of Mind' is a work of
"an exotic psychedelic free-jazz-meets-rock, East-meets-West, progressive and smoky moment in late Twentieth Century music history" !
For details of the collectors' release of "Piece of Mind"
please click on the image of the sleeve (right)and scroll down.
To taste "Piece of Mind", and read a review, please click here
The
right of John Mackie to be identified as the author of the works mentioned
and quoted from herein has been asserted by him in accordance with the
Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988. His moral right has also been
asserted .
John's multimedia installation
Resonant Waving commissioned by The Forest culture centre was shown at
the Totalkunst Gallery, Edinburgh, as part of the Annuale Festival 2010
For a glimpse, click here.
In
Memoriam Jacqui Allen
A selection
of poems written in the wake of the death of John's partner of 15 years,
Jacqui Allen, from cancer, on June 3rd 2006. Now includes 2 memorial poems written in 2008 and 2009: The Peach Tree The Harbour Garden
