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Strathconon - by Ian A. Olson

{ Poem }

When you took the autumn to London
/ And left me to burrow into winter
/ I said they could pack up Strathconon
/ Box up…

A Memory of Death - by Alan Bold

{ Poem }

Nineteen fifty six was a momentous year,
/ The year of Suez…

The Peace of Wild Things - by Wendell Berry

{ Poem }

When despair for the world grows in me
/ and I wake in the night at the least sound
/ in fear of what…

In the Fishmongers - by Tessa Ransford

{ Poem }

All over the fish / and the knife that continues to work / and the marble slab / and her…

German Prisoners - by Joseph Lee

{ Poem }

When first I saw you in the curious street,
/ Like some platoon of soldier ghosts in grey,
/ My mad impulse was…

Sonnet viii - by William Drummond of Hawthornden

{ Poem }

My Lute, bee as thou wast when thou didst grow
/ With thy greene Mother in some shadie Grove,
/ When immelodious Windes but…

From the Line - by Roderick Watson Kerr

{ Poem }

Have you seen men come from the Line,
/ Tottering, doddering, as if bad wine
/ Had drugged their very souls;
/ Their…

Psalm Eighty-Eight Blues - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

Lord, when I’m speechless
/ when something – not just sorrow
/ but under that – a dull, numb, nameless dreich
/ about the heart I…

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