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national poetry day 2016

Text - by Imtiaz Dharker

{ Poem }

I am sending a message again.
/ Maybe you can’t hear it
/ through all the noise of lights
/ and the dangerous way things…

Am Bogsa-Litrichean - by Meg Bateman

{ Poem }

Dh’fhan mo litir ris a’ phosta,
/ oidhche Shathairne, oidhche Dhòmhnaich,
/ ràinig i Dùn Èideann, chaidh a fosgladh,
/ sheas i greiseag air a’ phiàna;
/
/ Ach…

from Lochaline Stores - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

Nothing can be hidden from Lochaline Stores,
/ Supposing the Grocer’s has eyes and ears:
/ Not an addiction to scratch cards or whisky,
/ Not…

Letter - by Hugh McMillan

{ Poem }

Here is a letter
/ come across the ocean
/ over the back of a world
/ curved like a whale.
/ I unwrap it, like tissue,
/ and sentences…

Cracking the Code - by Ciara MacLaverty

{ Poem }

When we feed nuts
/ to the squirrel
/ at our back door
/ he seems remarkably clever
/ to come back for more.
/ Yet if, after day one,
/ he…

Answermachine - by W. N. Herbert

{ Poem }

Eh amna here tae tak yir caa:
Eh’m mebbe aff at thi fitbaa,
Eh mebbe amna here at aa

Invitation - by Louise Greig

{ Poem }

Open house for crocodiles
/ Dress Code : Wear smiles
/ Juicy children for tea!
/ R.S.V.P.
/ …

it was this big! - by Alan Spence

{ Poem }

it was this big!
/ the child tells her mother,
/ on the phone…

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