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Mood: Homesickness

Letters to Glasgow - by Imtiaz Dharker

{ Poem }

Heading north is a leap of the heart.
On the map on the phone, the blue dot
is a pulse that crosses the border.

Hölderlin’s shopping bag - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Poetry object

Ashey Lane - by Kate Barrett

{ Poem }

Always
Solitary
Home
Excellent
Yet
Lonely
And I wish it
Never
Empty.

Killochyett - by Andrew Dodds

{ Poem }

Killochyett! … Killochyett! …
/ The dusk is drappin’ doon;
/ The waefu’ wind is whimp’rin’ in the trees;
/ The lichts begin tae blink aboot…

I have lost my bearings - by Anna Crowe

{ Poem }

It is time to go north. I want / to listen to silence and unpick its voices: / the wind…

Dream Cities - by Gerrie Fellows

{ Poem }

I
/
/ Glasgow, late September and the city I spoke of
/ in another country …

Homespun - by Helen Cruickshank

{ Poem }

I met a man in Harris Tweed
/ As I walked down the Strand;
/ I turned and followed like a dog
/ The breath of…

I Love the Sun-Baked Taste of Armenian Words - by Eghishé Charents

{ Poem }

I love the sun-baked taste of Armenian words,
/ their lament like ancient lutes, the bend
/ of blood-red flowering roses in the…

from Malli i Shqiperise - by Ismail Kadare

{ Poem }

Te shkoj dua mbremjes ne rruget e Tiranes,
/ Ku kam bere dikur ndonje marrezi,
/ Dhe ne rruget ku skam bere asnje marrezi.
/ Me…

Building Vocabulary - by Christine Laennec

{ Poem }

Cianalas:
/ Who would have thought
/ I’d have to come
/ so far from home
/ to find a word that perfectly captures
/ the…

Like - by Elizabeth Burns

{ Poem }

The fog that is like but more rare
/ The wind that is like but not…

January, 5 - by Alison Fell

{ Poem }

Off Lindisfarne
/ the waves shiver like monks
/ at their ablutions.
/
/ Under high horizontals
/ of ice-cloud, the sky
/ scrubbed clean as a dairy.
/
/ The train darts north,
/ hungry…

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