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Poetry By Heart Scotland post-1914

Poems listed under this tag are permitted for performance in the post-1914 category of the Poetry By Heart Scotland competition.

Poem for Roy Batty - by Kona Macphee

{ Poem }

Whenever neon trickles down
/ to meet a city drain,
/ I think of you on some wet roof,
/ a cobbled son of men –…

guthan chalanais - by Aonghas MacNeacail

{ Poem }

1
/ seallaibh sinne
/ dh’èirich às a’ mhòintich
/ far an do chaidil sinn
/ tro linntean dìochuimhn’
/
/ an-diugh nar sgeinean maola
/ gearradh an àile
/
/ 2
/ chunnaic aon t-sùil màthair…

A Galloway Burn in June - by Dorothy Margaret Paulin

{ Poem }

Brown burn water dropping
/ Between the grey stones,
/ The lapse and the murmur,
/ The bright overtones
/ Of…

Culbin Sands - by Andrew Young

{ Poem }

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

The Moult - by Jen Hadfield

{ Poem }

Shelter in the hoodoos and pluck / your fur – fine smell caught on the heather / and shining reeds…

Dander round the loch with Henry Raeburn and James Hutton - by Alasdair Paterson

{ Poem }

Mother, I think / it’s come at last: / my skating minister vocation. …

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…

War Photographer - by Carol Ann Duffy

{ Poem }

In his dark room he is finally alone
/ with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
/ The only light is red…

‘Thug mise dhut biothbhuantachd’ - by Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

Thug mise dhut biothbhuantachd
/ is dè thug thu dhòmhsa?
/ Cha tug ach saighdean
/ geura do bhòidhchid.
/ Thug thu cruaidh shitheadh
/ is treaghaid na dòrainn,
/ domblas an…

View of Scotland/Love Poem - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

Down on her hands and knees
/ at ten at night on Hogmanay,
/ my mother still giving it elbowgrease
/ jiffywaxing the vinolay. (This is…

Sounds of the Day - by Norman MacCaig

{ Poem }

When a clatter came,
/ it was horses crossing the ford.
/ When the air creaked, it was
/ a lapwing seeing us off the premises
/ of…

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…

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