“When all this is over I mean / to travel north...”
~ ‘Lochan’, a beautiful #poem by Kathleen Jamie 🍃
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I agree. And it’s shameful how complicit the Environment Agency was - it turned a wilfully blind eye to it all.
I like this tiny poem by Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social from his forthcoming Carcanet collection Lyrical Ballads.
April is the coolest month…
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Fascinating. This reminds me of Hisham Matar when he wrote that after killing Goliath, David had no choice but to become Goliath himself.
A sky that tastes of rain that’s still to fall
And then of rain that falls and tastes of sky…
-Douglas Dunn ‘Tay Bridge’
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#amreading The Burns Identity - Don Paterson on the sudden disappearance of Robert Burns
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Those are the poems so awful they’re beyond language, Ruth.
Suddenly realised my entire output could be divided into three categories:
Mineral by Kathleen Jamie
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Haha! Thanks so much Ian, and best wishes to you too. Fare forward, voyager.
Don’t mess with Angus Council.
Eggs in moonshine is a favourite recipe in our house.
Lesley Harrison on Stewart Sanderson’s ‘The Sleep Road’
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Yes Bill, my Penguin Collected says it was translated by Richard Lourie. I should have acknowledged that. The Notes add ‘One Stanza was placed on the monument in Gdańsk erected by Solidarity in 1980 to commemorate the workers killed by the police in 1970.’ Great poems never achieve irrelevance.
‘You Who Wronged’ by Czesław Milosz. For some reason or other this poem came to mind this morning. Written in a time of tyrants:
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Would they be the Lone Ranger?
Dog looking at a pair of twats.
What really scares me about Reform is the way their heads are all mutually interchangeable.
This time of year the light seems keen to come north again.
Tay Estuary at Buddon Ness.
#Scotland
It’s true: even a sea worn brick was born in a dying star.
