Imogen Forster

@imogenforster.bsky.social

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Poet and former translator, living in Edinburgh, publishing here and there.

A white hollyhock against a trellis, and an apple tree
A small concrete pillar at the side of the road, with a plate showing the letter 'M'. Like a fire hydrant sign, otherwise.
A red ceramic octopus in the window of a barbershop on Dundas St, Edinburgh burgh.
Red and yellow peonies at Threave Estate, Dumfries and Galloway.
The walled garden at Threave Estate, Dumfries and Galloway
A fire hydrant buried in the ground, Helensburgh, Scotland
Mecanopsis (Himalayan blue poppy) with seed-collector bags, at Branklyn Garden, Perth.
Here's a pot, or a mug. A birthday present, handmade in 2 kinds of clay, brown and cream.
Abundant white May (hawthorn) blossom, Queen St Gardens, Edinburgh.
A model, called The Peaceable Kingdom, featuring animals and humans living in improbable harmony.
A paper model showing the figures of two lawyers in an 18th century setting.
A,paoer model showing, above, Drumlanrig Castle, with two human figures and a rather tame lion, and below, various small animals in a rural landscape.
An old rusty orange petrol pump, left high and dry in a former stable yeard in Galloway, Scotland.
Model of an imaginary street scene in Georgian Edinburgh, two men, one a lawyer, carrying papers.
A paper construction, called 'House and Gqrden'.
A little plastic bat holding a raquet
Windows of an office building being refurbished, seeb through a window of the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
From the National Portrait Gallery, to building works, Edinburgh.
An imaginary scene of marine carnage!
A paper construction called House and Garden.
A paper construction, showing a,room with red furniture and an imaginary garden
A paper construction, with toy furniture and garden features. Hard to describe, because it has no purpose or intention, other than fun.
A construction consisting of paper elements and pieces of toy furniture. The title is House and Garden, but it's not logical, just decorative.
The magnificent cast iron and glass roof of York's railway station, from platform 1.
A construction, symbolising winter. Hard to describe, made from odds and ends.
A fruitbowl with apple, bananas, kiwi and quinces.
A label lying on the pavement, with details that suggest a human face. (The rotated version wasn't as clear as the original.)
A disused wall-mounted V R postbox in Nunhead, South London.
A disused Victorian postbox in Nunhead, S. London.
An upside-down fruit (banana) box with three holes suggesting a human face.
A bunch of Wild rocket growing in a drain in Scotland Street, Edinburgh.
A small child's shoe, pink and while, that someone has put on a railing in the park.
Four large waste bins in an Edinburgh street, with a pink metal chair on the pavement beside them.
Yellow toy octopus on a shelf in a shop.
A marigold growing on an Edinburgh pavement. The sun makes it hard to see it's bright orange.
Ladybird ob lavender
Ladybirds on lavender
Sufa dumped in the street
The train shed at Newcastle.
A dilapidated wooden gate(?) in Stromness, Orkney.
Sluice valves in Stromness, Orkney.
Postbox and barometer, Stromness.
A rusted iron hydrant plaque in Stromness, Orkney.
The bus stop is painted mauve.
Bins, and ...
A hole in a wall, in York.
Thursday bins, Hanover St, Edinburgh.
Charlotte Sq, Edinburgh.
A namesake?
Somewhere near Lochinver, I think. There's a lot of Scotland...
Leonora Carrington cover
Street furniture, Telegraph Hill.
This is a scene constantly renewed. People drowning off the coasts of Italy and Greece
This, from ten years ago.
Postbox, Dundas St, Edinburgh.
In-line, Edinburgh.