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BBC Scotland Poet in Residence 2017

In Days of Darkness - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Two days before your death, you wrote / There is not much to report from here.

Except for Iain - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Except for Iain, who looks both found & lost, / already haunted by his own baffled ghost…

Sanctified - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Scotland where can we find you, / where are you hiding your gallus self?…

Andra on November 30th - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Saint Andra o the Blessed Beuk, / as Scottish as a Heelan Duke.

Almorness - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

The tide is sidling up to Almorness, / unmet by those returned now north & west / away from here.

Remembering Then, Remembering Now - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Who are we remembering? / Millennia of the distant, recent dead, / all men, women, children lost to / wars…

Buddy, Can You Spare a Rhyme? - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Buddy can you spare a rhyme, the time, / a line for Paisley?…

Diwali, Manchester 2001 - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

I think of windows as I think of caves…

Happiness - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

I’ve made my own Museum of / Happiness, which isn’t built of brick / or stone or wood…

Heart - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Home is where the heart is / or home is where the art is…

Here’s the Weather - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Fae stooshie tae fankle tae bouroch tae dreck / we’re steeped in the downpour of dialect.
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