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Dr Wha - by James Robertson

{ Poem }

Wha’s jist a thoctie in anither’s heid?
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor s^he?

Long Lost Lover - by Bea Webster

{ Poem }

A yellow dawn breaks on the airport of my childhood 
Thick air of spices and warmth and tenderness 
Enters my nose and brings out a wave of nostalgia 
And here I am, the home of my soul 
Don Meuang embraced me like a long lost lover

The Plinky-Boat - by Jen Hadfield

{ Poem }

Something near to true
night-darkness. The children
are playing the Plinky-Boat –
a xylophone made
from a reclaimed yoal

Ashey Lane - by Kate Barrett

{ Poem }

Always
Solitary
Home
Excellent
Yet
Lonely
And I wish it
Never
Empty.

excerpt from Farm by the Shore - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

small oats rye bere barley
ripe harvest in late summer
a shallow ploughing
grazing and fallow in rotation

Well Park Lane - by Mark Tennant

{ Poem }

We all
/ Expect
/ Literature to
/ Look special…

excerpt from In Darkest Capital - by Drew Milne

{ Poem }

A Critique of Dialectical Reason…

Approaching Sixty - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

In the Central Café
/ in Innsbruck,
/ a girl in a dark-blue dress
/ unlooses her hair from its clasp
/ so it falls to her waist,…

I Lost my Shoes on Rachel Street - by Rachel McCrum

{ Poem }

I lost my shoes on Rachel St.
/ Head lolled back to rest
/ against a pillow of the Mont
/ kiss the foot of the…

Here’s a health to them that’s awa - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

Here’s freedom to them that wad read,
Here’s freedom to them that wad write!
There’s nane ever fear’d that the truth should be heard,
But they whom the truth would indite.

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…

from The Cherrie and The Slae - by Alexander Montgomerie

{ Poem }

About ane bank, where birds on bewis
/ Ten thousand times their notis renewis
/ Ilk hour into the day,
/ The…

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