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Central Scotland

Between the Dee and the Don - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

I was conceived between the Dee and the Don. / I was born in the city of crag and stone.

Loch Thom - by W. S. Graham

{ Poem }

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/ Just for the sake of recovering
/ I walked backward from fifty-six
/ Quick years of age wanting to see,
/ And managed not to trip…

Avonbridge Uprooted - by Janet Paisley

{ Poem }

Mechanical shovels scrape
/ the soft felt of your mossy slopes.
/ Torn brown welts bleed water, ooze clay,
/ and the tearing in my breast…

The X Files: Bonnybridge, October ’95 - by Hugh McMillan

{ Poem }

Lorrayne
/ before you hit me with that object
/ shaped like a toblerone
/ let me explain.
/ We only went for a half pint and a…

Driven Home - by James McGonigal

{ Poem }

I am the angel charged to take you home.
/ I have nothing to look forward to. You have.
/
/ You think you nodded…

Abernethy - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

Air-psalters and pages of stone
/ Inscribed and Caledonian
/ Under these leaf-libraries where
/ Melodious lost literature
/ Remembers itself! A white
/ Dove climbs on its Columban flight
/ In…

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