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Best Scottish Poems 2016

Enquiry Desk - by Andy Jackson

{ Poem }

Do you have the one
/ with that poem they read at the funeral
/ in that movie?…

Physics for the unwary student - by Pippa Goldschmidt

{ Poem }

Imagine that you are trying to balance on the surface of an expanding balloon.

The Narcissist & the Light Stasher - by Jenni Fagan

{ Poem }

They did not like
/ sunlight on your skin,
/
/ ordered you sit in the shade,
/ said: you are repellent
/
/ vile, they…

Aig Cladh Hallain - by Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul
Angus Peter Campbell

{ Poem }

Tha mi tadhal air m’ athair’s mo mhàthair,
/ ‘s tha iad a’ cur fàilt’ orm,
/ ged nach robh dùil aca rium
/ ‘s ged…

Anthem - by James Aitchison

{ Poem }

In my disorder I shivered sweated, yawned
/ with fear and wrote some lines that went beyond
/ wit’s end…

Catalogue of my grandmother’s sayings - by Claire Askew

{ Poem }

A bloody good hiding
/ Another egg chipped
/ …

Outwith - by Katie Ailes

{ Poem }

Revising my visa essay,
applying for three more years
here, I read my own scribbled words

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