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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, POETRY: And Ohh, What Is That Peculiar Taste? 6 years, 3 months ago
Your eyes can almost see past the white wine on your table
Almost see the fish gasping for life in the huge net
But not quiteYour nose can almost detect that very particular smell of sheep, as they travel up […]
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, CANADA: A Protest Poem 6 years, 7 months ago
Thanks to Infinity’s Kitchen magazine for their kind permission to re-use this poem. This has been performed once with a Canadian flag wrapped around the performers.
The readers (any number from 4 to 6) a […]
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, POETRY: Saying 'Hello' to a Sheep 6 years, 11 months ago
A poem written for my first time participating in a Save Movement event:
Your fate is not described in films and books
No tale of The Knife. No painting of The HooksYou and your friends that you hold […]
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, POETRY: Rewilding 7 years, 3 months ago
Sheep on the hill, silent, as the
Day, dark falling
Filling the pools is the swift rain – cruel and nourishing – high hill
Saturating
Into the nightWith the morn,
Hordes of clegs and midges gorge the […]
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, An animal rights interactive poem 7 years, 11 months ago
Daybreak is a multi-voice animal rights poem. Please join me now in performing it!
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(Featured image: red deer in Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. Courtesy Wolf Clifton – Animal People, Inc.)
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Take part in the performance of a Nature poem, now! 7 years, 11 months ago
This is your big chance to take part in a nature poem. No auditions required.
Ashby
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Featured image: bird at sunrise, outside Kathmandu, Nepal. Courtesy Wolf Clifton – Animal People, Inc.
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Four Green Walls (short story) 8 years, 2 months ago
(Featured image credit: 威翰 陳, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
It is hard to climb the stairs. Only four flights but they are narrow and steep. People piss in the entryway and offensive graffiti covers the walls […]
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Buddhism, Veganism, & Multi-Voice Poetry 8 years, 3 months ago
(Featured image: carving of the Buddha surrounded by animals in Borobudur, a 9th century Buddhist temple in Java, Indonesia. Credit Wolf Clifton – Animal People, Inc.)
Since writing an unpublished book on […]
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Invertebrate Pain 8 years, 4 months ago
(Featured image: octopus using nut and seashell for shelter, a form of tool use. Credit Nick Hobgood, used under CC BY-SA 3.0)
Author’s Note: This article was originally published in The Vegan magazine, Winter […]
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Seals, protests, and selchies 8 years, 4 months ago
(Photo credit: Nic, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
One of the reasons that I am passionate about Seal tales:
One day in November 1982, I was out in a powered boat – with some other protestors – in the Orkney […]
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“The Secret of Roan Inish” (1994) is a marvelous film about selkies that takes place on the Irish coast. Thank you for reminding me of the magical selkies.
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Researching the Researchers 8 years, 5 months ago
(Featured image: primate in transit to laboratory. Credit Mary Bloom)
In the 1980s I did the background research for an anti-vivisection group in Glasgow, Scotland. I researched the researchers in the area […]
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, The Saboteur's Guide to Foxhunting Horn and Voice Calls 8 years, 5 months ago
(Featured image credit: Calypso Orchid, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
There are ten particular situations that every Sab needs to know about. If you know the calls, you will not be bored at a Hunt, as you will be […]
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Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, The Beast, and how to write an animal rights poem 8 years, 5 months ago
(Featured image credit Frank DiBona, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
I recently read in some magazine, a Hunt follower asking for Hunting with Hounds to continue because, “there are so many wonderful poems about t […]
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Ashby McGowan became a registered member 8 years, 6 months ago
Ashby, I love this poem! The final verse, “There are three of you at your table: you, and your friend, and your victim,” works really well as a stand-alone quote as well.