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Place: Highlands & Islands

Lorca on Morar - by David Kinloch

{ Poem }

Lorca:
/
/ ‘Areesaig’, ‘Morrarr…’
/ the beach stands up
/ in little whirlwinds of ash
/ in my Hispanic mouth,
/
/ the dunes become chintz
/ statues of white sand,
/ poodles with griffon…

Srath Nabhair - by Derick Thomson

{ Poem }

Anns an adhar dhubh-ghorm ud,
/ à irde na sìorraidheachd os ar cionn,
/ bha rionnag a’priobadh ruinn
/ ’ s I freagairt mireadh an teine
/ ann…

Spirit of the Cloutie Tree - by Dilys Rose

{ Poem }

Mother of all stravaigers, where they pass through
/ she stays, in an oily haze of exhaust
/ from untaxed bangers, leaky caravans –
/ clearing…

Kylesku - by Alan Riach

{ Poem }

All afternoon the sun burned your forehead and face,
/ driving for miles through peatscrapes,
/ bare rock ridges rising from moorland, driving through…

A Very Small Miracle - by Hugh McMillan

{ Poem }

A lamb was born near Dunnet Head,
/ tumbling in a yellow broth of legs
/ on the dark earth,
/ finding its feet just before
/ the…

Assent - by Brian Johnstone

{ Poem }

The Whaligoe Steps, Caithness
/
/ Men tied these knots round bundles
/ of themselves, round gear and harvest,
/ bare possession, stuff. Hitched rawness
/ to the skin,…

Ullapool - by Sally Evans

{ Poem }

You know you’re in Ullapool
/ when the little town is a sea town,
/ lorries roll from the docks,
/ a gaggle of girls buy…

Canada Geese - by Robert Davidson

{ Poem }

Out of the haar, in flight,
/ in formation, in position, each eye
/ on the white rump in front, each aware
/ of the white…

Shandwick Stone - by Ken Cockburn

{ Poem }

As jets without the black box of memory
/ Startle sheep in deserted glens
/ the stone hunters stalk their various prey.
/
/ Chaotic and recurrent…

Canoeing on Loch Veyatie, Late Summer - by Tom Bryan

{ Poem }

Slicing the trout-speckled slipsteam,
/ over the dark silver of Veyatie,
/ today, a restless and turgid loch –
/ fifteen fathoms of darken dream.
/
/ Angry clouds…

The House - by Tom Bryan

{ Poem }

(at Ach’ an Dreaghainn – The Field of Thorns)
/
/ I found an Oban Times
/ from 1889, stuck behind the timbers.
/ It was placed…

Munlochy - by Anne MacLeod

{ Poem }

The valley shines
/ gold from sea to hill, tree to sky
/ in afternoon sun, good sun, though the evening chill
/ promises frost, morning…

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