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The Song of the Ungirt Runners - by Charles Hamilton Sorley

{ Poem }

We swing ungirded hips, / And lightened are our eyes, / The rain is on our lips, / We do…

Cross - by Angela Cleland

{ Poem }

Needling of jabs, riddle of ducks and feints,
/ you wait for a clear target.
/
/ It comes, as brief as a spark plug’s…

Saying goodbye to my daughter at night - by Patricia Ace

{ Poem }

The sound down low, the impossible blue
/ of the Water Cube in Beijing filling the screen.
/
/ A young diver stands on the…

TV Hockey - by Anne Wilkinson

{ Poem }

Players, humped as oxen, brood in boxes;
/ One by one stumble from their cages
/ (Lift of gulls, swing and loop and lag
/ And…

from Song for Yacine Mbaye - by Léopold Sédar Senghor

{ Poem }

Championne 1974 des 1,500 mètres
/
/
/ Mbaye toi aussi Mbaye, si je t’ai choisie Mbaye,
/ c’est pour ta beauté vraie
/ Pour ta…

Thwok! - by Matt Harvey

{ Poem }

up loops a lob with a teasing temerity
leaps in the air in defiance of gravity
puts it away with a savage severity
coupled with suavity

Bodysurf - by Paul Maddern

{ Poem }

for Erin
/
/ To understand everything about the swell—
/ how on a given day the seventh in the cycle
/ provides he greatest chance to…

Viv - by Faustin Charles

{ Poem }

Like the sun rising and setting
/ Like the thunderous roar of a bull rhino
/ Like the sleek, quick grace of a gazelle,
/ The…

Tynecastle - by Donald Campbell

{ Poem }

I never get doun to Tynecastle thae days
/ It’s a guid lang while nou sen I’ve been
/ I never get doun to…

Bonspiel - by Lorn Macintyre

{ Poem }

He saw the weather written on the pane
/ as he buckled on his gaiters,
/ shouldering the hammer to walk the lane
/ spooked with…

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