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Best Scottish Poems 2015

The Water - by Judith Taylor

{ Poem }

River names are the oldest,
/ the first things in a landscape.
/ So many times they simply mean The Water.
/
/ And the ones we…

Logos - by JL Williams

{ Poem }

She walks on the charred ground, wings of smoke
/ from the bones of her home rising.
/
/ ‘Here was, there used to be,…

Viking Horse-bone Ice Skates - by Jane McKie

{ Poem }

The horse won’t know how its metatarsal
/ can be whittled by friction with the lake,
/ how the act of skating is part…

Waffle House Crush - by Harry Josephine Giles

{ Poem }

I’ll have you smothered n covered n
/ diced n peppered n
/ capped n lathered n
/ lustred n smoothed n
/ spread
/
/ drizzled n dazzled n
/ blazed…

Mosi-oa-Tunya - by Eveline Pye

{ Poem }

The last place for a waterfall, no mountains or valleys,
/ horizons flat as summer seas, then from thirty miles,
/ a white tower…

Bela Lugosi in Stornoway - by Donald S. Murray

{ Poem }

I was definitely typed, doomed
to be an exponent of evil

Soondscapes - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

I da dizzied hoose, a strum of flechs baet
/ endless drums fornenst a frenzied window.
/ Belligerent, dey want nedder in nor oot.
/
/ Apö…

I have lost my bearings - by Anna Crowe

{ Poem }

It is time to go north. I want / to listen to silence and unpick its voices: / the wind…

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