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Place: Dumfries & Galloway

Four poems from “Lockerbie, Pan Am Flight 103” - by Aileen Ballantyne

{ Poem }

On 21 December 1988, the longest night of the year, Pan Am Flight 103 fell on the small town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 passengers and crew, and 11 Lockerbie residents. It remains the worst terrorist attack on UK soil. The Wishin’ Gate Leuk beneath ma gravestane,through the keekie-hole when the rowan’s laden,when the summer’s […]

A Galloway Burn in June - by Dorothy Margaret Paulin

{ Poem }

Brown burn water dropping
/ Between the grey stones,
/ The lapse and the murmur,
/ The bright overtones
/ Of…

‘Scotland small?’ - by Hugh MacDiarmid

{ Poem }

Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
/ Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
/ To a fool…

Solway Tide - by Dorothy Margaret Paulin

{ Poem }

An unco sough i’ the gloamin’
/ An’ a flaff o’ risin’ win’,
/ A glisk o’ stoundin’ waters
/ …

The Banks of Fleet - by William Nicholson

{ Poem }

I sing the bonny banks o Fleet,
/ Where Nature spreads her various treasure;…

Whithorn and Elrig - by Anne Scott

{ Poem }

The monks liked cats for company, I hear.
/ I can believe it.
/ Felines of ink and gold
/ Arch the capitals,
/ Curve into the celibate…

The River - by Tom Pow

{ Poem }

1. EVENING SKETCH
/
/ Night squats on the grey estate: the river,
/ the roads turn black. Up a deserted side-street
/ darkness tears away from…

At Cairnholy - by Tom Pow

{ Poem }

Chambered cairn: third millennia B.C.
/
/ The Cairnholy sun
/ dyed the cold sky red,
/ dispensed with forests;
/ made sea echo stone.
/ For, in winter, Wigtown
/ deals elements;…

Hydro Hotel - by Richard Price

{ Poem }

The derelict hotel, the tower on the hill,
/ water in the tower,
/ the height of the tower, the place I…
/
/ The stairways can’t…

Cree Seasons - by Liz Niven

{ Poem }

Galloway greens again
the river silvered with
white eggs, sharp scent of cucumber
sweet vernal grass
vanillas air

Seasons - by Uilleam Nèill
William Neill

{ Poem }

Skeich wes the hert i the spring o the year
/ whan the well-sawn yird begoud tae steer
/ an the plewlan’s promise gledened…

Fastness - by Hugh McMillan

{ Poem }

Across the isthmus
/ and the broken neck of dykes
/ we leave the low boasts
/ of cattle, the sight
/ of dry fields combed flat
/ to baize.
/ Here,…

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