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21st century poems

Dr Wha - by James Robertson

{ Poem }

Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels through endless versions o reality? Bit dis he ken himsel? Weel, mibbe sae, yet wha’s tae ken gin aw that’s kent by Wha maks mair or less or better sense […]

Bilingual Poet’s Dilemma - by Donna Williams

{ Poem }

Don’t mind if it’s in Sign,
Or words in witty lines…

Long Lost Lover - by Bea Webster

{ Poem }

A yellow dawn breaks on the airport of my childhood 
Thick air of spices and warmth and tenderness 
Enters my nose and brings out a wave of nostalgia 
And here I am, the home of my soul 
Don Meuang embraced me like a long lost lover

The Plinky-Boat - by Jen Hadfield

{ Poem }

Something near to true
night-darkness. The children
are playing the Plinky-Boat –
a xylophone made
from a reclaimed yoal

Ashey Lane - by Kate Barrett

{ Poem }

Always
Solitary
Home
Excellent
Yet
Lonely
And I wish it
Never
Empty.

excerpt from Farm by the Shore - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

small oats rye bere barley
ripe harvest in late summer
a shallow ploughing
grazing and fallow in rotation

Well Park Lane - by Mark Tennant

{ Poem }

We all
/ Expect
/ Literature to
/ Look special…

excerpt from In Darkest Capital - by Drew Milne

{ Poem }

A Critique of Dialectical Reason…

Approaching Sixty - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

In the Central Café
/ in Innsbruck,
/ a girl in a dark-blue dress
/ unlooses her hair from its clasp
/ so it falls to her waist,…

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…

A Calendar of Hares - by Anna Crowe

{ Poem }

/ At the raw end of winter
/ the mountain is half snow, half
/ dun grass. Only when snow
/ moves does it become a hare.
/
/ If…

Getting in Touch with our Feminine Sides - by Tim Turnbull

{ Poem }

It’s morning and it’s just the two of us
/ in the Transit crew-bus, driving out to work,
/ past dew-hung spruce, in this…

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