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Orkney Islands

Hoy Sound - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

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Hoy Sound - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

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Well Park Lane - by Mark Tennant

{ Poem }

We all
/ Expect
/ Literature to
/ Look special…

A Memory of Death - by Alan Bold

{ Poem }

Nineteen fifty six was a momentous year,
/ The year of Suez…

Seivin Verses for GMB - by William Hershaw

{ Poem }

They are fermin the fower winds:
/ Five grey- stemmed daffodils
/ on the hill abuin Eynhallow
/ that whirlmagig air intil pouer.
/
/ Aa Simmerdim on Flotta…

Bela Lugosi in Stornoway - by Donald S. Murray

{ Poem }

I was definitely typed, doomed
to be an exponent of evil

Pish - by Andrew Greig

{ Poem }

Privilege or necessity of age
/ this twice or thrice nightly quitting
/ warm pit for a slash in the dark?
/
/ Not that…

The Scale of Things - by Margaret Tait

{ Poem }

There’s a whole country at the foot of the stone
/ If you care to look
/ These are the stones we have instead…

Beachcomber - by George Mackay Brown

{ Poem }

Monday I found a boot –
/ Rust and salt leather.
/ I gave it back to the sea, to dance in.
/
/ Tuesday a spar…

The Year of the Whale - by George Mackay Brown

{ Poem }

The old go, one by one, like guttered flames.
/ This past winter
/ …

Hamnavoe Market - by George Mackay Brown

{ Poem }

They drove to the Market with ringing pockets.
/
/ Folster found a girl
/ Who put wounds on his face and throat,
/ Small and…

Castle O Burrain - by Yvonne Gray

{ Poem }

Puffins, windblown
/ come careering in
/ wings tilted
/ bright feet braced
/ outstretched
/ to catch the ledge.
/ They gather in rows
/ on narrow balconies
/ tiny, gaudy, gossiping gods
/ paintbox beaks a-gabble
/ heads…

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