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Filmpoem 4 / La Plage - by Alastair Cook

{ Poem }

The poem ‘La Plage’ is by Jane McKie.

Night River - by Leonard McDermid

{ Poem }

sharp
/
/ shore beyond the flats
/
/ wind …

point of view - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

Folded card work

The Price of Enlightenment - by Gordon Meade

{ Poem }

Have I, I wonder, finally attained enlightenment? Today, everything is as it is. The breakwater is just a breakwater.The sea is just the sea. And the heron, fishing in a rock pool, is nothing more than a heron fishing, and the rock pool itself is as clear as day. Why then is it that I […]

Roger Hilton, November ’64 - by David Wheatley

{ Poem }

Sydney Graham reach me a hand.

Horse-bathing Parade - by William Kersley Holmes

{ Poem }

A few clouds float across the grand blue sky,
/ The glorious sun has mounted zenith-high,
/ Mile upon mile of sand, flat, golden,…

Headland - by Sasha Dugdale

{ Poem }

A loudspeaker on a car proceeds slowly up the far quay

Almorness - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

The tide is sidling up to Almorness, / unmet by those returned now north & west / away from here.

Strange Fish - by Magi Gibson

{ Poem }

At the beach
/ she would not splash
/ in the shallows
/ or leap
/ the rippling waves,
/ instead she sat
/ sour-faced
/ on the sand
/ and…

Outwith - by Katie Ailes

{ Poem }

Revising my visa essay,
applying for three more years
here, I read my own scribbled words

The Neep-Fields By the Sea - by Violet Jacob

{ Poem }

Ye’d wonder foo the seasons rin
This side o’ Tweed an’ Tyne;
The hairst’s awa’; October-month
Cam in a whilie syne,
But the stooks are oot in Scotland yet

Camas Tuath - by Tom Buchan

{ Poem }

Pink sand and sandpipers pink in the setting
/ sun and pink granite and the pink swirl
/ of green waves: no mediterranean relics
/ here,…

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