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Place: Fife & Angus

three fish - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Box work

Aince Upon a Day - by William Soutar

{ Poem }

Aince upon a day my mither said to me:
Dinna cleip and dinna rype
And dinna tell a lee.

Sainless - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

I hae stuid an hour o the lown midsimmer nicht
/ til twal o the knock i the leelang glamarie-licht
/ by…

In Praise of Balgeddie - by J. Logie Robertson

{ Poem }

I.
/ I sing of a spot,
/ Tho’ the warld knows it not,
/ And it’s nae…

Baltic Street - by Violet Jacob

{ Poem }

/ My dainty lass, lay you the blame
/ Upon the richtfu’ heid;
/ ‘Twas daft ill-luck that bigg’d yer hame
/ …

Wynd - by Andrew Greig

{ Poem }

In the hours between Stingray and the evening meal, / when the strings of family, place and history / working…

Kirkforthar - by Ian Nimmo White

{ Poem }

The sun trickles though calligraphy
/ on the pine-tops and the path
/ becomes a chess board of dark and light,
/ a swithering of midges
/ one…

Shrunkelt - by Raymond Vettese

{ Poem }

There were cobbles then in George Street,
/ whan I wis young, message-laddie
/ til Bob Mackenzie, The Grocer, North Street
/
/ The bike dunted ower…

The Fields o Angus - by Raymond Vettese

{ Poem }

Thro nicht oor machinery roared,
/ spun, beat, powped and chilled
/ the plump rasps juiced for jam.
/ We wrocht or denner broke oor shift
/ syne…

The Thread - by Don Paterson

{ Poem }

Jamie made his landing in the world
/ so hard he ploughed straight back into the earth.
/ They caught him by the thread…

The Pool - by Andrew McNeil

{ Poem }

The auld ootside swimmin-pool
/ Absurd next tae muckle sanstane boilins,
/ Survivors o mony storms an gales.
/
/ Its watter,
/ Sic wondrous dark brouns;
/ Velveteen glory
/ O the…

Paris – Forfar - by David Kinloch

{ Poem }

From the window of the Hardie-Condie Café, I see the ghost of a …

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