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Filmpoem 53/ The God of Sugar - by Alastair Cook

{ Poem }

The God of Sugar is part of a series of films commissioned by Absent Voices, a group of artists focused on the celebration of the post-industrial Greenock Sugar Sheds.

11:00: Baldovan - by Don Paterson

{ Poem }

Base Camp. Horizontal sleet. Two small boys
have raised the steel flag of the 20 terminus:

me and Ross Mudie are going up the Hilltown
for the first time ever on our own.

A Hauf-a-Croun o Devolutioun - by T. S. Law

{ Poem }

‘Say efter me,’ said Rab, as he gied the waen
/ a hauf-croun muckle ‘s the muin i the middle air,
/ the siller…

The Shopping Forecast - by Eddie Gibbons

{ Poem }

The Shopping Forecast issued by the Dole Office
/ at 1930 on Monday 1st January.
/
/ There are warnings of Sales in Frasers,
/ Debenhams,…

The Afternoon Shift Are Leaving the Port Talbot Steelworks - by Tracey Herd

{ Poem }

The machines don’t / stop, night or day, although, one by one, / the anonymous men are slipping away.

The Spell of the Yukon - by Robert Service

{ Poem }

I wanted the gold, and I sought it,
/ I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
/ Was it famine…

Connecting Cultures - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

Such words can sound like flagged-up slogans, true. / What we merely say says nothing — / All that matters…

Rats - by Alison Prince

{ Poem }

You want to be a fat cat, want to do the deals?
/ Fix the odds, pull the birds, eat expensive meals
/ that…

My First Bawbee - by Archibald McKay

{ Poem }

O! nane, I trew, on a’ the yirth
/ Was happier than me,
/ When in my wee…

Easing - by Alison Prince

{ Poem }

Living without money would be good.
/ Swap yellow poppies for the miracle
/ of frost and stars, offer work
/ for the sweet joining…

from Song of Ocol - by Okot p’Bitek

{ Poem }

Tell me
/ My friend and comrade,
/ Do you remember
/ The night of uhuru
/ When the celebration drums throbbed
/ And men and women wept with joy
/ As…

Tuna - by Kumalau Tawali

{ Poem }

Tuna you are the mirror of the blue
/ Tuna you are the pain in my veins
/ Tuna you are lord.
/
/ When I set…

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