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Filmpoem 11 / Condition of Fire - by Alastair Cook

{ Poem }

Condition of Fire is a film by Alastair Cook based on seven poems from poet J.L. Williams’ debut collection.

Selkie - by Rachel Plummer

{ Poem }

The secret me swims
with the big fish, brash, he swaggers

like a mermaid, bares teeth
like daggers, barks at the moon when it’s thin.

New Mother - by Janette Ayachi

{ Poem }

I folded the scan picture like a brewing secret

gave a copy to my mother, the gift of birth passed down
the hands of women

Dr Wha - by James Robertson

{ Poem }

Wha’s jist a thoctie in anither’s heid?
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor s^he?

Crith-Thalmhainn - by Ruaraidh MacThòmais
Derick Thomson

{ Poem }

Tha cian nan cian a-nis bho thàinig
gainneamh a Sahàra a Ghlaschu,
is tha creagan Leòdhais tòrr nas sine
na Tursachan Chalanais,

My Pitch - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

Let Arthur Wharton come back from the dead
To see the man in black blow the final whistle.

Meadowbank Changing Manifesto - by Colin Herd

{ Poem }

We need another word
for badminton.

Doctor Wha - by James Robertson

{ Poem }

Wha’s Doctor Wha?

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.

March - by Andrew Dodds

{ Poem }

On Sunday gawky and glaiket,
/ For life no carin’ a preen;
/ On Monday lookin’ forsaket,
/ Wi’ a misty weet in her een;
/ On Tuesday…

Come and Go - by Sheenagh Pugh

{ Poem }

He has chosen, far nearer the end
/ than the beginning, to live
/ where, every day, he can watch the land
/
/ come and go,…

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