Poetry

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Lorna Moon – The Sinning of Jessie Maclean

Almost forgotten today, Lorna Moon wrote a book of short stories based on her home village of Strichen, after emigrating to America where she became…
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As Far As I Can See, Eunice Buchanan

Eunice Buchanan is a poet and prose writer, born and bred in Arbroath, who writes both in English and in the rich Angus Scots of…
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LA A’ BHREITHEANAIS or THE DAY O JUDGMENT

This long poem on the final confrontation between God and sinner is generally regarded as Buchanan's masterpiece. A terrifying and dramatic vision of eternal punishment,…
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Disguise

This collection by Shetland-based poet Alex Cluness is deceptive in more ways than one. Apparently simple, the poems lure you into the minds of eighteen different men…
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Ayont the Dyke

"These feisty, lithe, little poems prove that Aonghas Dubh, Kettillonia, and the collection of linguistic phenomena known as the Scots tongue are all very much…
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ROCK IS WATER or A History of the Theories of Rain