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In Memoriam - by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray

{ Poem }

Blue-eyed, white-souled; blameless in word and deed! —
How fortunate a thing it is to leave
This life in such a way that none may grieve,

Hesepe: II - by Archibald Allan Bowman

{ Poem }

How hard it is to think upon this shoal
Of Inanition that the world’s ablaze.

11:00: Baldovan - by Don Paterson

{ Poem }

Base Camp. Horizontal sleet. Two small boys
have raised the steel flag of the 20 terminus:

me and Ross Mudie are going up the Hilltown
for the first time ever on our own.

A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

Thou’s welcome, Wean! Mishanter fa’ me,
If thoughts o’ thee, or yet thy Mamie,

Brooklyn Cop - by Norman MacCaig

{ Poem }

Built like a gorilla but less timid,
thick-fleshed, steak-coloured, with two
hieroglyphs in his face that mean
trouble,

Hotel Room, 12th Floor - by Norman MacCaig

{ Poem }

This morning I watched from here
a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect
the Empire State Building,

Hello, I am Scotland - by Michael Pedersen

{ Poem }

Who wakes every morning
/ in a brilliant mood as auburn bursts
/ cast filigree nets over foreheads
/ and swingparks and paint themselves
/ on pavements.

Here’s a health to them that’s awa - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

Here’s freedom to him that wad read, / Here’s freedom to him that wad write! / There’s nane ever feared…

The Beginning of a New Song - by Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

Let her new river shine on a day
That is fresh and glittering and contemporary;

Let it be true to itself and to its origins
Inventive, original, philosophical

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Place: Scotland

In Memoriam - by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray

Hesepe: II - by Archibald Allan Bowman

11:00: Baldovan - by Don Paterson

A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter - by Robert Burns

Brooklyn Cop - by Norman MacCaig

Hotel Room, 12th Floor - by Norman MacCaig

Hello, I am Scotland - by Michael Pedersen

Here’s a health to them that’s awa - by Robert Burns

The Beginning of a New Song - by Iain Crichton Smith

Sanctified - by Stuart A. Paterson

from The Bruce - by John Barbour

Gift - by Ian A. Olson