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In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport - by Emma Lazarus

{ Poem }

Here, where the noises of the busy town, / The ocean’s plunge and roar can enter not, / We stand…

The Well-Spring - by Stewart Conn

{ Poem }

Since the former priestess’s departure / a sea-change has taken place.

Pilgrimage: Being the thoughts of an ex-soldier at Ypres, 8/8/28 - by J. B. Salmond

{ Poem }

Me, an’ Jean, an’ the bairn;
/ The wee lad spierin’ an’ starin’;
/ Daunderin’ quiet an’ douce-like doun
/ The Menin road into Ypres toun.
/ ‘Did…

Women Demobilised - by May Wedderburn Cannan

{ Poem }

July 1919
/
/ Now we must go back again to the world
/ Full of grey ghosts and voices of men dying,
/ And in the…

Last Supper - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

She is getting good and ready to renounce
/ his sweet flesh.
/ Not just for lent. (For
/ Ever)
/ But meanwhile she is assembling the ingredients
/ for…

Homecoming - by Tishani Doshi

{ Poem }

I forgot how Madras loves noise
/ Loves neighbours and pregnant women
/ And Gods and babies
/
/ And Brahmins who rise
/ Like fire hymns…

The Marble Quarry - by Robert Crawford

{ Poem }

For the second time in fifty years
/ I come to the Marble Quarry.
/ Last time, a boy, I came with my father.
/ Now…

The Finished House - by George Mackay Brown

{ Poem }

In the finished house a flame is brought to the hearth.
/ Then a table, between door and window
/ Where a…

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