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Baltic Street - by Violet Jacob

{ Poem }

/ My dainty lass, lay you the blame
/ Upon the richtfu’ heid;
/ ‘Twas daft ill-luck that bigg’d yer hame
/ …

Stone - by Alasdair Maclean

{ Poem }

I
/
/ A long peninsula of solid rock,
/ upholstered every year in threadbare green.
/ Stones everywhere, ambiguous and burgeoning.
/ In Sanna ramparts of them
/ march…

The Coast of Widows - by George Gunn

{ Poem }

A broken necklace of crofts
/ strewn across the sandstone floor
/ of the north Caithness coast
/ these sea-beat parishes where the fields
/ are…

Solway Tide - by Dorothy Margaret Paulin

{ Poem }

An unco sough i’ the gloamin’
/ An’ a flaff o’ risin’ win’,
/ A glisk o’ stoundin’ waters
/ …

Home Town Elegy - by G. S. Fraser

{ Poem }

(For Aberdeen in Spring)
/
/ Glitter of mica at the windy corners,
/ Tar in the nostrils, under blue lamps budding
/ Like bubbles of…

Yon Toun - by William Soutar

{ Poem }

…

The Silver City - by Marion Angus

{ Poem }

Yonder she sits beside the tranquil Dee,
/ Kindly yet cold, respectable and wise,
/ Sharp-tongued though civil, with wide-open eyes,
/ Dreaming of hills, yet…

Wester Ross - by Naomi Mitchison

{ Poem }

Stone and rock
/ Boulder and pebble,
/ Water and stone,
/ Heather and stone,
/ Heather and water
/ And the bog cotton that is not for weaving.
/
/ Peats uncut
/ And…

from Lochaber for Ever - by Alice MacDonell

{ Poem }

In all thy moods I love thee,
/ In sunshine and in storm;
/ Lochaber of the towering bens,
/ …

‘By lone St. Mary’s silent lake’ - by Sir Walter Scott

{ Poem }

By lone St. Mary’s silent lake:
/ Thou know’st it well,—nor fen nor sedge
/ Pollute the pure lake’s crystal edge;
/ Abrupt and sheer, the…

Clyde - by John Wilson

{ Poem }

extract from ‘Falls of Clyde’, part of the the poem ‘Clyde’
/
/ Where ancient Corehouse hangs above the stream,
/ And far…

Winter in Strathearn - by John Davidson

{ Poem }

(extract from the poem)
/
/ The twinkling Earn, like a blade in the snow,
/ The low hills scalloped against the high,
/ The…

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