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In Praise of Balgeddie - by J. Logie Robertson

{ Poem }

I.
/ I sing of a spot,
/ Tho’ the warld knows it not,
/ And it’s nae…

Pabail - by Derick Thomson

{ Poem }

Air iomall an talamh-àitich, eadar dhà sholas,
/ tha a’ churracag a’ ruith ʼs a’ stad, ʼs a’ ruith ʼs a’ stad,
/ is…

Kinnaird Head - by George Bruce

{ Poem }

I go North to cold, to home, to Kinnaird,
/ Fit monument for our time.
/
/ This is the outermost edge of Buchan.
/ Inland…

A Man In Assynt (extract) - by Norman MacCaig

{ Poem }

Glaciers, grinding West, gouged out
/ these valleys, rasping the brown sandstone,
/ and left, on the hard rock below –
/ the ruffled…

The Road to Roberton - by Will H. Ogilvie

{ Poem }

The hill road to Roberton: Ale Water at our feet,
/ And grey hills and blue hills that melt away and meet,
/ With…

Gasometer - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

You don’t care about the wildness of the sky,
/ my old gasometer! The kitchen window
/ frames your gaunt frame, the…

Homespun - by Helen Cruickshank

{ Poem }

I met a man in Harris Tweed
/ As I walked down the Strand;
/ I turned and followed like a dog
/ The breath of…

Culbin Sands - by Andrew Young

{ Poem }

Here lay a fair fat land;
/ But now its townships, kirks, graveyards
/ Beneath bald hills of sand
/ …

Lewis - by Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

From the War Memorial
/ we see Lewis entirely.
/ For this place they died,
/ the new houses, the smell of seaweed,
/ the rivers,
/ an old woman…

‘Scotland small?’ - by Hugh MacDiarmid

{ Poem }

Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
/ Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
/ To a fool…

Ceann Loch Aoineart - by Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

Còmhlan bheanntan, stòiteachd bheanntan,
/ còrr-lios bheanntan fàsmhor,
/ cruinneachadh mhullaichean, thulaichean, shlèibhtean
/ tighinn sa bheucaich ghàbhaidh.
/
/ Èirigh ghleanntan, choireachan ùdlaidh,
/ laighe sa bhùirich chràcaich;
/ sìneadh chluaineagan, shuaineagan…

Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain (extract) - by Duncan Ban MacIntyre

{ Poem }

4. Siubhal
/
/ A’ bheinn luiseanach fhailleanach
/ Mheallanach lìontach,
/ Gun choimeas dh’ a fallaing
/ Air thalamh na Crìosdachd:
/
/ ‘S ro-neònach tha mise,…

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