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Place: Glasgow

Glasgow - by Alexander Smith

{ Poem }

Sing, Poet, ’tis a merry world;
/ That cottage smoke is rolled and curled
/ …

Second Lives - by David Kinloch

{ Poem }

Leaves turn sere and there are bings
/ from networks stretching in through the window:
/ you could tiptoe now among the stubby thumbs…

Nine One Word Poems - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

A Far Cool Beautiful Thing, Vanishing
/ blue
/
/
/ The Dear Green Plaice
/ Glasgow
/
/
/ Homage to Zukofsky
/ …

Glasgow 5 March 1971 - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

With a ragged diamond
/ of shattered plate-glass
/ a young man and his girl
/ are falling backwards into a shop-window.
/ The young man’s face
/ is bristling…

A Glasgow nonsense rhyme for Molly - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

Molly Pin Li McLaren,
/ come home and look
/ at the pictures in your brand-new book –
/ a tree, a bird, a fish, a…

Great Western Road - by Donny O’Rourke

{ Poem }

Glasgow, you look beatific in blue
/ and I’ve a Saturday before me
/ for galleries and poems,
/ a house full of Haydn,
/ and beneath my…

Clydegrad - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

It was so fine we lingered there for hours.
/ The long broad streets shone strongly after rain.
/ Sunset blinded the tremble of…

Dream Calendar - by Raymond Friel

{ Poem }

/ Red neon burns
/ on brickwork: Tyres & Exhausts.
/
/ As if we didn’t know.
/
/ The hunt’s livener
/ outside the Tontine.
/
/ A trail of port in the…

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