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a book of water - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Handbound volume

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…

The Hill Burns - by Nan Shepherd

{ Poem }

So without sediment
/ Run the clear burns of my country,
/ Fiercely pure,
/ Transparent as light
/ Gathered into its own unity,
/ Lucent and without colour;
/ Or green,
/ Like…

A Border Burn - by J. B. Selkirk

{ Poem }

Gie me a Border burn
That canna rin without a turn,
And wi’ its bonnie babble fills
The glens amang oor native hills.

Stream Rhythm - by Valerie Gillies

{ Poem }

The Powskein, the knife-slash,
/ then Cor Water, the long marsh,
/ Badlieu, all mossy-grey,
/ a wet spot through the day,
/ Smid Hope, the blacksmith’s yards,
/ Glencraigie,…

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