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“In all its breadth and ceaseless treasure”: the Contemporary Gaelic Poem
Gaelic-language poems by Lewis MacKinnon: Your Speech Listening to your speech today; A bag-of-wind speech, A speech without ceasing, A speech without shape, A speech without feeling, A...
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Latha Naomh Anndra / Scottish Gaelic poems for Saint Andrew’s Day: Sorley...
. Sorley Maclean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain) (Raasay, Scotland, 1911-1996) “Should I even strip off…” . Should I even strip off My deceit-proof clothing And go naked and eager As a blaze of supreme...
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Nua-bhàrdachd: Gàidhlig / Contemporary Gaelic poetry from Scotland: Meg Bateman
ZP_A nineteenth-century illustration, Spear-plume thistle or Cirsium vulgare, which was the original native Scotch Thistle until the arrival in the middle ages of the tougher, spinier and more...
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Poems for Saint Andrew’s Day: Bruce & Neill & Thomson
George Bruce (Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, 1909-2002) Why the Poet makes Poems (written to my dentist, Dr. K. P. Durkacz, to explain why I failed to keep an appointment) . When it’s all done and said...
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Winter Solstice poems in Scots and Gaelic
December Gloaming (poet unknown) . In the cauld dreich days when it’s nicht on the back o four, I try to stick to my wark as lang as may be; But though I gang close by to the window and glower, I...
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