Poetry By Heart Scotland post-1914 Archives

Poetry Forum - by Helena Nelson

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What is poetry for? (Maitreyabhandu)
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/ It’s for weddings
/ and funerals
/ and reading on the train
/ and for taking a person out of herself
/ and bringing…

Eight Tips for New Poets - by Helena Nelson

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1. Read modern, current verse
/ Byron, Blake, Burns in the bin.
/ Ancients out, Armitage in.
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/ 2.Subscribe to two or three good quality…

The Tradition - by Kathleen Jamie

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For years I wandered hill and moor
/ Half looking for the road
/ Winding into fairyland
/ Where that blacksmith kept a forge
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/ Who’d heat red…

An Tiona - by Peter Mackay

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Nuair a bha mi sa bhun-sgoil
/ fhuair mi tiona sleamhainn tana
/ far an cuirinn m’ fhaclan
/ sgrìobhte air sgoltaidhean pàipeir.
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/ Chan eil cuimhne agam…

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

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

What Not to Write on the Back Jacket of Your Debut Collection - by Helena Nelson

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This book is not bad.
/ A number of these poems feature the poet’s dog: George.
/ The author’s mother recommends this book.
/ Boris Johnson…

The Conversion of Sheep - by Hugh McMillan

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When St Fillian first came upon the sheep
/ they stood with their Sumerian heads
/ and stared him out…

This Is It - by William Letford

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Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma
/ fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
/ it’s November. Christmas is close. Av been
/ away bit…

Physics for the unwary student - by Pippa Goldschmidt

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Imagine that you are trying to balance on the surface of an expanding balloon.

The Narcissist & the Light Stasher - by Jenni Fagan

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They did not like
/ sunlight on your skin,
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/ ordered you sit in the shade,
/ said: you are repellent
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/ vile, they…

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death - by William Butler Yeats

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I know that I shall meet my fate
/ Somewhere among the clouds above;
/ Those that I…

The Wild Swans at Coole - by William Butler Yeats

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The trees are in their autumn beauty,
/ The woodland paths are dry,
/ Under the October twilight the water …

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