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The Veggies’ Olympics - by Les Wheeler

{ Poem }

Runner beans are affa fit
Sproots are fine an swack

Fi’baw in the Street - by Robert Garioch

{ Poem }

Shote! here’s the poliss,
the Gayfield poliss,
an thull pi’iz in the nick fir
pleyan fi’baw in the street!

Nil Nil - by Don Paterson

{ Poem }

Just as any truly accurate representation of a particular geography can only exist on a scale of 1:1 (imagine the vast, rustling map of Burgundy, say, settling over it like a freshly-starched sheet!) so it is with all our abandoned histories, those ignoble lines of succession that end in neither triumph nor disaster, but merely […]

The stars are the map I unfurl - by Gary Quinn

{ Poem }

Da starns are da map I unrowl

My Pitch - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

Let Arthur Wharton come back from the dead
To see the man in black blow the final whistle.

Meadowbank Changing Manifesto - by Colin Herd

{ Poem }

We need another word
for badminton.

Aquafit - by Rosemary McLeish

{ Poem }

November Friday mornings when the weather’s
/ foul Glaswegian, see me out my bed
/ by half past nine, racing the traffic to…

Anither season - by Ross Wilson

{ Poem }

In memory of Alec “Spangles” Hunter (1936 – 1995)
/
/ When they found Marciano’s body
/ strapped in the crashed plane seat,
/ someone said…

Scotland to Queensland, Glasgow to Gold Coast - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

The good ship Friendship sails between Glasgow / And your far, your golden, coast. / May fierce friendship forever flourish…

When We Were Gymnasts - by Emily Ballou

{ Poem }

Remember when you turned cartwheels / in the schoolyard. / And danced down the length / of the fallen tree,…

Learning Curves - by Donny O’Rourke

{ Poem }

Although we favoured football as a rule,
/ PE was comprehensive at our school.
/ Coached in a bit of this, a bit of…

The Laws of the Game - by Samuel Tongue

{ Poem }

The receiving player must catch and sprint / through a rush of hot blood and adrenaline, / the ball held…

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