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By the Watter - by Robert Crawford

{ Poem }

Daurk nicht, smuith swaws, wund’s pine,
A peedie bait wannerin awa –
Sey, watter, the lave o my wizzen.

a book of water - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Handbound volume

The Nightfishing - by W. N. Herbert

{ Poem }

Way down in the warm blue crevasse
of night its fishing commences

Seastairway - by Vahni Capildeo

{ Poem }

sea-troughs~sea-tombs~seawalls

“One Renfrewshire Man To Another” - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

To articulate clearly what is difficult to say / I shall transmit this by a beam from a lighthouse

Headland - by Sasha Dugdale

{ Poem }

A loudspeaker on a car proceeds slowly up the far quay

W*nd - by Zaffar Kunial

{ Poem }

Weather from elsewhere / becomes ours.

Last dip of the year - by Ian Abbot

{ Poem }

Her body was as shy as berries when she stepped
/ as neatly as a hind out of the bush
/ she had unrobed…

The Water - by Judith Taylor

{ Poem }

River names are the oldest,
/ the first things in a landscape.
/ So many times they simply mean The Water.
/
/ And the ones we…

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…

Solway Tide - by Dorothy Margaret Paulin

{ Poem }

An unco sough i’ the gloamin’
/ An’ a flaff o’ risin’ win’,
/ A glisk o’ stoundin’ waters
/ …

Sonnet - by C. K. Stead

{ Poem }

Here even the valley of the shadow of death / has taken upon itself the mantle of beauty.

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