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Borders - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

That sound outside, near Sandyhills bridge,
/ along Barnhourie Burn, a high wild wailing
/ winding down to a long low growl of echo,
/ has…

Bela Lugosi in Stornoway - by Donald S. Murray

{ Poem }

I was definitely typed, doomed
to be an exponent of evil

From Macbeth - by William Shakespeare

{ Poem }

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
/ The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
/ I have thee…

A Dead Man - by Roderick Watson Kerr

{ Poem }

A dead man dead for weeks
/ Is sickening food for lover’s eye
/ That seeks and ever seeks
/ A fair one’s beauty…

Hallaig - by Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

‘Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig’
/
/ Tha bùird is tàirnean air an uinneig
/ trom faca mi an Àird Iar
/ ’s tha mo…

The Haunt - by Roddy Lumsden

{ Poem }

Betwixt of January,
the year’s scantest trawl.

Loch Avon - by Nan Shepherd

{ Poem }

Loch A’an, Loch A’an, hoo deep ye lie!
/ Tell nane yer depth and nane shall I.
/ Bricht though yer deepmaist pit may…

The Prelude - by William Wordsworth

{ Poem }

an extract
/
/ She was an elfin Pinnace; lustily
/ I dipp’d my oars into the silent Lake,
/ And, as I rose upon the stroke,…

The Charming Nancy - by Miriam Gamble

{ Poem }

She is out there somewhere,
/ creaking in the swell
/ of the green lough water,
/ oozing sugar
/ and black-market nicotine
/ into the river’s vein.
/
/ She stirs herself…

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