Poetry Ambassadors 2021: Dreaming

At the end of the first term of the SPL’s revised Poetry Ambassadors programme, we invited Aoife Lyall, Ceitidh Campbell, Hugh McMillan and Thomas Clark to each produce a new work on the theme of a dream or on dreaming. The submissions are accompanied by short film recordings of the poets reading their work.

Poems on Dreaming

Sundays

They’re all there— the slippers, the walking boots, the modest brogues, two pairs of well-worn runners, the black soft-soled slip-ons

Read Aoife Lyall's poem

Thig Aislingean gu Buil

Tha thu nad shaor-thuiteam tron sgàthan gu roisgeulan na h-oigridh, a’ sìreadh do thoileachadas gu deò.

Read Ceitidh Campbell's poem

Dream

Midnight and phone dead, the Innocent Tunnel is a wormhole, the walls slick and vivid.

Read Hugh McMillan's poem

Nichts o the Lívin Deid

Kirkyaird, nicht – the hoastin yird Astir aneath a smit-smuir shrood

Read Thomas Clark's poem