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At My Father’s Funeral - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

Didn’t we think, for a moment,
of crushing his feet
so he couldn’t return to the house
at Halloween?

Epitaph - by William Montgomerie

{ Poem }

For 2nd Officer James S. Montgomerie of the S.S. Carsbreck,
/ torpedoed off Gibraltar, 24th October 1941
/
/ My brother is skull and…

La lluna i la primavera - by Teresa Colom

{ Poem }

no escrivim sobre la mort només sobre la vida
/
/ els morts no escriuen
/
/ com tampoc el pollastre que ara és a la…

Ned Black’s Dream - by Suhayl Saadi

{ Poem }

The Misses Nelly to the Burgess surgeon!
/ This very night, a performance
/ Of dissection – flexing leg, belly, supple loin and eye…

Requiem - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Under the wide and starry sky,
/ Dig the grave and let me die.
/ Glad did I live and gladly die,
/ …

The Year of the Whale - by George Mackay Brown

{ Poem }

The old go, one by one, like guttered flames.
/ This past winter
/ …

‘When you see millions of the mouthless dead’ - by Charles Hamilton Sorley

{ Poem }

When you see millions of the mouthless dead
/ Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
/ Say not soft things as…

Rooks - by Charles Hamilton Sorley

{ Poem }

There, where the rusty iron lies,
/ The rooks are cawing all the day.
/ Perhaps no man, until…

The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652 - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

I
/
/ This is the myth we chose to do without;
/ and surely the painter imagined the garden he shows
/ as…

My Grandmother’s Love Letters - by Hart Crane

{ Poem }

There are no stars tonight
/ But those of memory.
/ Yet how much room for memory there is
/ In the loose…

Aunt Julia - by Norman MacCaig

{ Poem }

Aunt Julia spoke Gaelic
/ very loud and very fast.
/ I could not answer her —
/ I could not understand her.
/
/ She…

Reaching Helmsdale - by Robin Fulton Macpherson

{ Poem }

If it weren’t for
/ this red tweed jacket
/ I bought in Brora
/ I might well wonder
/ if we’d ever gone
/ north of Inverness.
/
/ We shouldn’t need…

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