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CSI - by Lindsay Macgregor

{ Poem }

A dyke like her who’s been around the block
/ a bit has heard it all before. Volcano, somewhere
/ near the Tropics, unexpectedly…

A Man In Assynt (extract) - by Norman MacCaig

{ Poem }

Glaciers, grinding West, gouged out
/ these valleys, rasping the brown sandstone,
/ and left, on the hard rock below –
/ the ruffled…

Dander round the loch with Henry Raeburn and James Hutton - by Alasdair Paterson

{ Poem }

Mother, I think / it’s come at last: / my skating minister vocation. …

To Ailsa Rock - by John Keats

{ Poem }

Hearken, thou craggy ocean pyramid!
/ Give answer from thy voice – the sea-fowl’s screams!
/ When were thy shoulders mantled in huge streams?
/ When…

Slate - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

There is no beginning. We saw Lewis
/ laid down, when there was not much but thunder
/ and volcanic fires; watched long seas…

The Hill Burns - by Nan Shepherd

{ Poem }

So without sediment
/ Run the clear burns of my country,
/ Fiercely pure,
/ Transparent as light
/ Gathered into its own unity,
/ Lucent and without colour;
/ Or green,
/ Like…

Seer - by Donald Smith

{ Poem }

for John Ruskin
/
/ “and through those eyes
/ now filled with dust,
/ the light of nature”
/
/ One
/
/ Pacing on the high walk
/ we catch…

Cokkils - by Sydney Goodsir Smith

{ Poem }

Doun through the sea
/ Continuallie
/ A rain o’ cokkils, shells
/ …

One Hand Clapping - by Stuart B. Campbell

{ Poem }

Ice Diamonds spumed clouds from Dhalugiri’s summit.
/ Eighteen thousand feet below,
/ In sand-storm heat, between sandstone heights,
/ Among rounded pebbles, I found a…

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