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from Finding My Grandparents In the Peloponnese - by Anna Crowe

{ Poem }

x
/
/ On one face, the cistern built by the Turks,
/ now holding only dust and darkness
/ below its stone vault, where Monemvasía’s
/
/ rocky…

Travelling South, Scotland, August 2012 - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

‘Necessity is not the mother of invention; play is.’
/ Ian D. Suttie
/
/ It gets late early out here
/ in the lacklustre places,
/ wind in…

‘Thug mise dhut biothbhuantachd’ - by Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

Thug mise dhut biothbhuantachd
/ is dè thug thu dhòmhsa?
/ Cha tug ach saighdean
/ geura do bhòidhchid.
/ Thug thu cruaidh shitheadh
/ is treaghaid na dòrainn,
/ domblas an…

Slate - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

There is no beginning. We saw Lewis
/ laid down, when there was not much but thunder
/ and volcanic fires; watched long seas…

Music, When Soft Voices Die - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

{ Poem }

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
/ Are heap’d for the belovèd’s bed;
/ And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
/ Love itself…

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…

Nameless - by William Montgomerie

{ Poem }

Its light is in the grass,
/ Its yearning in the white gull’s cry
/ And…

Echo & Elixir 5 - by Khaled Mattawa

{ Poem }

Maybe love is a walk to astonishment.
/ Or a ship stranded on the shore of oblivion.
/ The infinity in the atom,
/ the treasures…

Springs - by Kathleen Jamie

{ Poem }

Full March moon and gale-force easters, the pair of them
/ sucking and shoving the river
/ back into its closet in the hills…

Abernethy - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

Air-psalters and pages of stone
/ Inscribed and Caledonian
/ Under these leaf-libraries where
/ Melodious lost literature
/ Remembers itself! A white
/ Dove climbs on its Columban flight
/ In…

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