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Heart - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Home is where the heart is / or home is where the art is…

Here’s the Weather - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Fae stooshie tae fankle tae bouroch tae dreck / we’re steeped in the downpour of dialect.
/ …

The Land We Love - by Will H. Ogilvie

{ Poem }

Just a line of blue hills to remember:
/ Just a valley one fails to forget,
/ Whether bound with…

What Not to Write on the Back Jacket of Your Debut Collection - by Helena Nelson

{ Poem }

This book is not bad.
/ A number of these poems feature the poet’s dog: George.
/ The author’s mother recommends this book.
/ Boris Johnson…

Enquiry Desk - by Andy Jackson

{ Poem }

Do you have the one
/ with that poem they read at the funeral
/ in that movie?…

Catalogue of my grandmother’s sayings - by Claire Askew

{ Poem }

A bloody good hiding
/ Another egg chipped
/ …

Garland for the Winter Solstice - by Ruthven Todd

{ Poem }

Now, perched on this polar height
When all sap lies quiet and does not climb,
When all seems dead, I cultivate
The wild garden rioting in my memory

March - by Andrew Dodds

{ Poem }

On Sunday gawky and glaiket,
/ For life no carin’ a preen;
/ On Monday lookin’ forsaket,
/ Wi’ a misty weet in her een;
/ On Tuesday…

Poem Inspired by a Gaelic Topography of Balquhidder Parish: Rev. Alex MacGregor, EUP 1886 - by Sheena Blackhall

{ Poem }

Field of the land producing thatch
/ Shieling of grinding wheat
/ Burn beside the dun coloured dell
/ Burn of the mournful bleat
/
/ Burn of the…

Waffle House Crush - by Harry Josephine Giles

{ Poem }

I’ll have you smothered n covered n
/ diced n peppered n
/ capped n lathered n
/ lustred n smoothed n
/ spread
/
/ drizzled n dazzled n
/ blazed…

A Month on the Mile - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

On day 1, explore Edinburgh Castle sitting proud: / find the modest crown of a far from quiet country, /…

Twin-Screw Set – 1902 - by William Hutcheson

{ Poem }

Week after week I watched the darlings growing
/ Like two strange children in an orphan home,
/ Aft from the thrust block to…

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