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Blue Crevasse

The Nightfishing - by W. N. Herbert

{ Poem }

Way down in the warm blue crevasse
of night its fishing commences

Out of the Clyde - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

A boy once more who learnt the lessons early – / that those who hurt you most, you love most dearly.

Fantasia On A Line Of W.S. Graham - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

I still remember when I cared enough / to watch you sleep

The Porcelain Cliff - by Jen Hadfield

{ Poem }

Dust is curious. / Dust is thirsty.

Roger Hilton, November ’64 - by David Wheatley

{ Poem }

Sydney Graham reach me a hand.

Seastairway - by Vahni Capildeo

{ Poem }

sea-troughs~sea-tombs~seawalls

“One Renfrewshire Man To Another” - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

To articulate clearly what is difficult to say / I shall transmit this by a beam from a lighthouse

Three Awkward Ears - by Denise Riley

{ Poem }

ice-burned tongues / clump into celestine’s / eye-blue spar

W*nd - by Zaffar Kunial

{ Poem }

Weather from elsewhere / becomes ours.

In a Secondhand Bookshop - by Mel Pryor

{ Poem }

Maybe I buy the book in the brief belief / that thoughts can be reciprocal

The Interior - by Alan Gillis

{ Poem }

A lifetime of work to own a house / then you end up diminished by it.

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