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Sometime in the early 1970s, the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges visited his friend the poet (and later Borges' translator) Alistair Reid at St Andrews in Scotland. Various myths and legends have grown up around this visit in the oral tradition…

This clay sculpture was created of The vision of Eof by sculptor John McKenna ARBS, before moulding at the A4A studio foundry, in Ayrshire. From the mould a full size wax version was made for investing, ready to cast in bronze. The bronze statue was…

This poem was written in response to the discovery of the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial by Anna Coburn.

I got a bit concerned as the claywork of the sculpture was finished and I thought my dog might take a bite out of the clay snout - he did things like that when he was younger! [A4A Art for Architecture, High McGowanston Studio, Ayrshire, Scotland]…

I wrote this poem after queuing to see the Staffordshire Hoard.

A poem inspired by a reading of the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Battle of Maldon'. This poem was first published in my 'New and Selected Poems' (Peterloo, 2005)

This very small maquette sculpture idea was submitted by John McKenna ARBS, for a public art competition.

The competition was held by the Cotswold and Vale Magazine of Evesham around the 2000 millennium, to select by public vote a sculpture using…

A short piece of fiction with a twist in the tail.

In the early stages of his subcreation, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a number of new texts in Old English, in which he described the creation of the world in the Elder Days. This is my own calligraphic interpretation of one of these texts, which I made in…

John McKenna ARBS checks over the moulding (from the clay version) of the sculpture, The Vision of Eof, made at the A4A Art for Architecture studio foundry in Ayrshire.

From the mould a full size wax version was made for investing, ready to cast in…