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The Island - by David Burnett

{ Poem }

There are so many, and each oneIts own. But why this, and this still?Was there a sign? Perhaps justThe ancient, utter silence, a hawkHanging upon emptiness aloneBetween the cyclopean cliffs.Leaving the quay, the rusty steamer,The narrow, huddled, whitewashed street,We scrambled upward to the sky.Upon the crest a monasteryHewn from salt, and in the hills beyondA […]

Echo: Dropt Sapphics - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

Handscroll

Icarus poem - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

Twin postcards

Hoy Sound - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

Artist’s publication

Hoy Sound - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

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Echo: Dropt Sapphics - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

What cld you potentially – no! – possibly do to mean – O – wait! this feels too facile. So try once again. Make sure it is all sure – steadfast – scalar movements towards god knows what. You request the sun is shut out so you can muse on song. O – but of […]

Chronos - by Alan Jackson

{ Poem }

A man wi’ a great big beard
/ A met;
/ Said: ‘Don’t be feared
/ If ye get wet.
/
/ Run twenty years
/ On nature’s…

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…

The Fourth Craw - by Nalini Paul

{ Poem }

‘wasnae there at a’
/
/ Too much is said about night –
/ its fullness jug-heavy with distance
/ poured out into star-mapped flight.
/
/ But in…

from Memorial - by  Alice Oswald

{ Poem }

The first to die was PROTESILAUS / A focused man who hurried to darkness / With forty black ships leaving…

The Homecoming - by Manuel Rivas

{ Poem }

For Lois Pereiro
/
/ In Ithaca everyone was dead.
/ They say it was me, Argos the dog, who woke first:
/ — Dead, dead, dead!
/ A smell…

Mrs Midas - by Carol Ann Duffy

{ Poem }

It was late September. I’d just poured a glass of wine, begun
/ to unwind, while the vegetables cooked. The kitchen
/ filled with…

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