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John o’ Lorn - by Neil Munro

{ Poem }

My plaid is on my shoulder and my boat is on the shore,
/ And it’s all bye…

Columcille - by Ian McFadyen

{ Poem }

Exile I am, for to the last, I carry in my
/ heart the oak groves of Derry with their
/ white angels…

bho Cheum air Cheum - by Christopher Whyte

{ Poem }

III
/
/ С фонарем обшaрьте
/ весь подлунный свет!
/ Той страны нa карте –
/ нет, в пространстве – нет.
/
/ Marina Tsvetaeva
/
/ Dh’fhàg thu Glaschu airson Cambridge, Cambridge
/ airson an…

To S. R. Crockett - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
/ Blows the wind on the…

The Wild Geese - by Violet Jacob

{ Poem }

‘Oh tell me what was on yer road, ye roarin’ norlan’ Wind,
/ As ye cam’ blawin’ frae the land that’s niver…

Canadian Boat-Song - by Scottish anonymous

{ Poem }

Listen to me, as when ye heard our father
/ Sing long ago, the song of other shores-
/ Listen to me,…

Hame - by Mary Symon

{ Poem }

(St Andrew’s Day under the Southern Cross)
/
/ GOD bless our land, our Scotland,
/ Grey glen an’…

To Exiles - by Neil Munro

{ Poem }

Are you not weary in your distant places,
/ Far, far from Scotland of the mist and storm,
/ In drowsy airs,…

Bohemia Lies by the Sea - by Ingeborg Bachmann

{ Poem }

If houses here are green, I’ll step inside a house.
/ If bridges here are sound, I’ll walk on solid ground.

January, 5 - by Alison Fell

{ Poem }

Off Lindisfarne
/ the waves shiver like monks
/ at their ablutions.
/
/ Under high horizontals
/ of ice-cloud, the sky
/ scrubbed clean as a dairy.
/
/ The train darts north,
/ hungry…

Little Sea House - by Hamish Maclaren

{ Poem }

Little sea house,
/ when I found you,
/ the yellow poppies
/ …

Birds - by Kajal Ahmad

{ Poem }

According to the latest classification, Kurds
/ now belong to a species of bird
/ which is why, across the torn, yellowing…

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