existence Archives - Scottish Poetry Library

The Grass Boat - by Imogen Forster

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We’ve been playing unobserved
in the old brickyard, a place abandoned
to its toy-town railway, rusty iron tubs.

Clearing The Loft - by Norman Kreitman

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Dismay is waiting behind the door,where across the floor, footprints like hieroglyphschronicle the history of past defeats.Dead clothes, the skin of our former selves,still tumble from broken cases, cratessplit their sides with the books, a three-legged chair,bewildered, leans in the corner where a viper’s nestof jerseys entwines a broken lamp –all the high spume and […]

Life - by Julie Johnstone

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Remote glen-dwellers - by Angus Martin

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Of this monstrously tormented world, we know too much that puts our minds wrong and besides we cannot change it; better perhaps the ignorance of remote glen-dwellers in historyfor whom the news was locala trickling of small events all comprehensible and surelike the sun going down predictably behind a hill that was always there asleep […]

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existence

The Grass Boat - by Imogen Forster

Clearing The Loft - by Norman Kreitman

Life - by Julie Johnstone

Remote glen-dwellers - by Angus Martin

For as Long as - by Alan Young

A Birthday - by Edwin Muir

Full Stretch - by Tom Pow

‘We used to think the universe was made…’ - by J.O. Morgan

Physics for the unwary student - by Pippa Goldschmidt

This is it (AJ) - by Alan Jackson

Seivin Verses for GMB - by William Hershaw

Borders - by Stuart A. Paterson