The Cowdenbeath Man - by
In the slow revolving
/ of the mineral heavy Earth,
/ how long did the great hump of Hill of Beath
/ take to make coal?
/ How…
Place: Fife & Angus
Dingle Dell - by
There is no passport to this country,
/ it exists as a quality of the language.
/
/ It has no landscape you can visit;
/ when…
Ariadne on Broughty Ferry Beach - by
Ariadne sleeping in the stomach of the strand
/ curled in her turtleshell of purple silk
/ surrounded by declivities, the left hollows
/ of youths…
The Republic of Fife - by
Higher than the craw-stepped
/ gables of our institutes – chess-clubs,
/ fanciers, reels & Strathspeys –
/ the old kingdom of lum, with crowns agley.
/
/ All…
Abernethy - by
Air-psalters and pages of stone
/ Inscribed and Caledonian
/ Under these leaf-libraries where
/ Melodious lost literature
/ Remembers itself! A white
/ Dove climbs on its Columban flight
/ In…
Tay Bridge - by
A sky that tastes of rain that’s still to fall
/ And then of rain that falls and tastes of sky…
/ The colour…
The Construction of the Forth Railway Bridge 1882-1890 - by
Knitting and riveting
/ pinning and…
A Tentsmuir Flora - by
‘Existing floras exhibit only one moment in the history of the earth’s vegetation.’
/ Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer: ‘Plant Distribution’.
/ Encyclopedia…
Settlements - by
‘God answers our prayers by refusing them.’
/ …