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Ducks & Rabbits - by Veronica Forrest-Thomson

{ Poem }

in the stream;1look, the duck-rabbits swim between.The Mill Raceat Granta Placetosses them from form to form,dissolving bodies in the spume. Given A and see2find be3(look at you, don’t look at me)4Given B, see A and C.that’s what metaphor5is for. Date and placein the expression of a face6provide the framefor an instinct to rename,7to try to […]

O Uinneag Chòir - by Màiri NicGumaraid
Mary Montgomery

{ Poem }

Chunnaic mi solas an uinneag an taigheoidhche gheamhraidh aiteamhailsteach bailefar am buininnlà no dhà o cheana. O uinneag chòirthoir dhomh an sealladhneach deach an aireleth-choigrich,O uinneag chòir, innis a’ bhreug. O uinneag chòir, innis a’ bhreug’s an latha bhuainnàs amhairc dhuinnan fhìrinn bhuam’s gun mi teann co-dhìu dhan fheallaidheachd. Nan seasainn tricchan fhaicinn sìon’s e […]

The Outcast - by John Davidson

{ Poem }

And from above
One curse be hurled
With scorn, with love
Affront the world…

Life - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

Handbound volume

Hölderlin’s shopping bag - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Poetry object

a book of water - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Handbound volume

open slowly - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

Box work

from The Bruce - by John Barbour

{ Poem }

A! Fredome is a noble thing
/ Fredome mays man to haiff liking.
/ Fredome all solace to man giffis,
/ He levys at es that…

What Is It Like To Be A Herring Gull? - by Samuel Tongue

{ Poem }

After Thomas Nagel*
/
/ Circling the heavy church at the end of the street,
/ they see a cliff-stack above a grey Atlantic,
/
/ an inherited…

Wit is it - by William Letford

{ Poem }

The stonemason sade it’s aw in yur heed
/ Yur eyes ur like windeez an yur brain’s gon naywhere
/ Build yurself a palace
/
/ The…

Existentialist - by Sheena Blackhall

{ Poem }

Where do I live?
In the space between Monday and Sunday
In the retina of the crow’s eye.
I am a skin of prickles under a blue balloon

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