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Love on the croft in the time of wi-fi - by Ian Crockatt

{ Poem }

If you suffer pain And you can’t stoop yourself for fear your spine,                            Stiffening under the strain, Will flex, with a jolt flex again Like the neck of a heron,Or a flamingo’s s of feather and flame swaying onIts stalk, or a mind goneSpiralling into itself like a dog’s digging up a bone Or trying […]

Poem Inspired by a Gaelic Topography of Balquhidder Parish: Rev. Alex MacGregor, EUP 1886 - by Sheena Blackhall

{ Poem }

Field of the land producing thatch
/ Shieling of grinding wheat
/ Burn beside the dun coloured dell
/ Burn of the mournful bleat
/
/ Burn of the…

Magritte Macphail - by Seth Crook

{ Poem }

It is a union that suggests the essential mystery of the world.
/ Art for me is not an end in…

Stone - by Alasdair Maclean

{ Poem }

I
/
/ A long peninsula of solid rock,
/ upholstered every year in threadbare green.
/ Stones everywhere, ambiguous and burgeoning.
/ In Sanna ramparts of them
/ march…

The Coast of Widows - by George Gunn

{ Poem }

A broken necklace of crofts
/ strewn across the sandstone floor
/ of the north Caithness coast
/ these sea-beat parishes where the fields
/ are…

The Cotter’s Saturday Night - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! / For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent, / Long may…

Women of the Happy Island (extract) - by Joseph Macleod

{ Poem }

(The series of 47 soliloquies is about the women left behind on the
/ Isle of Barra during the Second World…

The Lake Isle of Innisfree - by W.B. Yeats

{ Poem }

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
/ And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
/ Nine…

Water-Lilies - by T. A. Robertson

{ Poem }

Whin da laeves an buds o da water-lilies
/ Spread roond da loch der dark-green frill
/ I took my…

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