Best Scottish Poems 2022 Archives

The Unsound Sculptor - by Seth Crook

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Critics heard a metaphor. / But after he died, his archive was found: / a thousand tapes of silence-

Gie’s yer Haun - by Don Paterson

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Merkin time in the reel thegither / ye’ll be cantin the sang wi me

One Tree Hill - by Ellen Renton

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If only I could hear the soundtrack. Anyone / in this business knows that nothing good comes / after an embrace like that.

Fàilte - by Màiri NicGumaraid
Mary Montgomery

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Fàilte dhachaigh / Dhan na claisichean / Far an d’fhuaireas

Neòinean, Bròg Na Cuthaig’, Beàrnan-Brìd’ - by Niall O’Gallagher

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Neòinean, bròg na cuthaig’, beàrnan-Brìd’, / gach dìthean a chinneas anns a’ ghàrradh;

Misg-fhoghair - by Calum L MacLeòid
Calum MacLeod

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Bhreab sinn tuill nar brògan fhèin /
agus slighe ghogach tro threallaich na bliadhna

Eilidh - by Lisa NicDhòmhnaill
Lisa MacDonald

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Nì grian nan uinneagan àrda / Pàtrain ealanta / A leansas mo pheansail air pàipear.

Bliadhna ùr air fàire - by Alasdair Caimbeul
Alasdair Campbell

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Muir mhìreanach, lainnireach, dhrithleannach, mhear / Le solas srianach, iom-sgarach a’ dannsa air feadh thonn is sgòth / A’ glasadh, a’ dubhadh is a’ dathadh adhar is fonn.

Sweetness - by John Bolland

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Digesting other life, against its will, / diversified after the early Cambrian.

Standing on top of the National Museum of Scotland - by Bridget Khursheed

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And the sky opens out above all the glass / inaccessible VIP pathways. / How did we get here like this?

Prestwick Airport - by Leyla Josephine

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The other planes only come at night. They swoop in
grey and big-bellied.

Noonwraiths - by Agata Maslowska

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Imagine our / bodies swimming, reading books, no split into pieces.

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