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In the Garden - by Matthew Sweeney

{ Poem }

i.m. my father
/
/ While I was shawling the strawberries
/ with fine green netting, you told me
/ about the cow that swam to the…

The Lake Isle of Innisfree - by W.B. Yeats

{ Poem }

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
/ And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
/ Nine…

Westering Home - by Hugh S. Roberton

{ Poem }

Chorus
/ Westering home, and a song in the air,
/ Light in the eye and it’s goodbye to care.
/ Laughter o’ love,…

The Isle of Jura - by Ken Cockburn

{ Poem }

the sound & the silences
/ the lighthouse & the standing stone
/ the road & the moor
/ the fuschia & the hazel
/ the garden &…

the island in September - by Gerry Loose

{ Poem }

yellow sea-cabbage …

St Ninian’s Isle - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

Hit hed ta be a saint at strayed dis far nort
/ at cared aboot da sowls o Pictish fisherfock.
/ Foo da bairns…

Shiants - by Ian Stephen

{ Poem }

The basking islands. The rocks
/ like sails or fins or teeth.
/
/ High wings are black blades
/ as the barnacle geese pass.
/
/ The blue men…

Leodhas as t-Samhradh - by Ruaraidh MacThòmais
Derick Thomson

{ Poem }

An iarmailt cho soilleir tana
/ mar gum biodh am brat-sgàile air a reubadh
/ ‘s an Cruthadhear ‘na shuidhe am fianuis a shluaigh
/ aig…

Orkney / This Life - by Andrew Greig

{ Poem }

For Catherine and Jamie
/
/ It is big sky and its changes,
/ the sea all round and the waters within.
/ It is the way…

Skye - by Mark O. Goodwin

{ Poem }

Skye: I’m back again couldn’t resist your wide horizon smiles and the jewellery of your white
/ washed houses gummed to the…

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