Jane's Writing Shed.

Only a couple of weeks to go until the end of our extended break at the Yellowcraig Caravan site in East Lothian. Ours is the smallest and least flashy caravan possible but it is cosy and offers a great space to write and read and sleep, listening to the sea, overflying geese and tawny owls. During our home based week my highlights include the new issue of The Rialto, seeing Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine at the Filmhouse (Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins are extraordinarily good) and Bridget from poetandgeek accepting one of my poems 'On the Rowan' for the next issue. Oh and Tove Jansson's short stories in Travelling Light... fantastic. Bring on Autumn!

A body full of light with chambers dark as a stilled heart and beneath the squat spire a cracked and silent bell we noticed marks on the walls the carved faces and broken tracery displayed in the transept like bones and through the choir's mauve and yellow panes where the grave of a knight and his lady lie ropes of late afternoon sun anchoring the building deep