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Best Scottish Poems 2006

Between - by Hamish Whyte

{ Poem }

I lie awake
/ listening to the wind.
/ There are metaphors and
/ metaphors but none
/ to put up this longing
/ for my new love.
/ The house creaks…

Two haiku - by Alan Spence

{ Poem }

that daft dog
/ chasing the train
/ then letting it go
/
/
/
/ dumb bumblebee
/ bumps the windowpane
/ again again again…

My father’s hand - by Gerard Rochford

{ Poem }

I like to wear a band around my wrist,
/ an amulet of copper, links of bling,
/ a hippy weave of cotton…

Wormwood - by Robin Robertson

{ Poem }

for Don Paterson
/
/ A flight of loose stairs off the street into a high succession
/ of empty rooms, prolapsed chairs and a…

Fergusson’s Statue - by James Robertson

{ Poem }

Ye’re stridin doon the Canongate, brent new
/ and lookin like ye’ve never been awa,
/ were never found curled deid upon the…

icarus mentor - by Chloe Morrish

{ Poem }

looking in the box
/ of balsa wood fragments,
/ you touch broken wings
/ and white tail, bright torn
/ scraps, painted numbers.
/
/ you remember…

Sloes - by Vicki Feaver

{ Poem }

He was in Paris for the weekend:
/ on his own – she was mad
/ to think otherwise.
/
/ She took the children
/ on an expedition…

If I Was Dead - by Carol Ann Duffy

{ Poem }

If I was dead,
/ and my bones adrift
/ like dropped oars
/ in the deep, turning earth;
/
/ or drowned,
/ and my skull…

Old Photograph - by Hugh McMillan

{ Poem }

It is VE Night, Tobermory.
/ Cottages blaze and shimmer in the mirror of the bay.
/ Light is necklaced everywhere,
/ on the…

Peeled - by Ciara MacLaverty

{ Poem }

Is there anything I shouldn’t say?
/ Just don’t tell her
/ you’re a lapsed Catholic, you reply
/ but when your mother asks
/ I can’t bring…

Atheist Lighting a Candle in Albi Cathedral - by Frances Leviston

{ Poem }

for Tyler
/
/ It seems to matter
/ I use a Zippo,
/ not the taper’s monkish flame.
/
/ It seems to matter I choose the…

Late Love - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

How they strut about, people in love,
/ how tall they grow, pleased with themselves,
/ their hair, glossy, their skin shining.
/ They don’t remember…

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