"By thority vested in me as vice president only Umitrd Sterts, Captain Carbuncle is a pardon."
"By thority vested in me as vice president only Umitrd Sterts, Captain Carbuncle is a pardon."
and the sodgers traik thro the skau
there’s an auld air sterts up –
bubblin and greetin.
It’s a ballant mithers sing
on their hunkers i the stour
for a bairn deid.
They ken it by hert.
—Alastair Mackie, “Pietà”
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongate.co.uk 2021
and the sodgers traik thro the skau
there’s an auld air sterts up –
bubblin and greetin.
It’s a ballant mithers sing
on their hunkers i the stour
for a bairn deid.
They ken it by hert.
—Alastair Mackie, “Pietà”
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongate.co.uk 2021
See it first at Sterts Arts & Environmental Centre, Liskeard on Sunday 26th July.
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See it first at Sterts Arts & Environmental Centre, Liskeard on Sunday 26th July.
Book your tickets now:
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The floo’ers and trees, they’re a’ my ain.
I am the day, and the sunshine
Quo life, the warld is mine…
—Hamish Henderson’s “The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” is a poetical battle between the forces of creation & destruction
#WyrdWednesday
The floo’ers and trees, they’re a’ my ain.
I am the day, and the sunshine
Quo life, the warld is mine…
—Hamish Henderson’s “The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” is a poetical battle between the forces of creation & destruction
#WyrdWednesday
It sterts wi
Wan
Twa
Three
Fower
Five
Six
Seiven
Eicht
Nine
Ten
Keep gaun
Alivin
Twal
Thirteen
Keep gaun
Fir five hale oors
An mair
Tae ye reach
The nummer
Ae weans
Killt
These months
In Gaza
ÆL
It sterts wi
Wan
Twa
Three
Fower
Five
Six
Seiven
Eicht
Nine
Ten
Keep gaun
Alivin
Twal
Thirteen
Keep gaun
Fir five hale oors
An mair
Tae ye reach
The nummer
Ae weans
Killt
These months
In Gaza
ÆL
📍#Norwich Theatre #Norfolk
📅 19 July
📍#Sterts Arts #Liskeard #Cornwall
📅 26 July
Info & tix shorturl.at/394Ho
📍#Norwich Theatre #Norfolk
📅 19 July
📍#Sterts Arts #Liskeard #Cornwall
📅 26 July
Info & tix shorturl.at/394Ho
Whit sterts in dreid, gangs doon in pain
Bairns wintin’ breid are makin’ mane
Quo daith, the warld is mine…
—Hamish Henderson’s “The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” is a poetical battle between the forces of creation & destruction
#BookWormSat #poem #poetry
Whit sterts in dreid, gangs doon in pain
Bairns wintin’ breid are makin’ mane
Quo daith, the warld is mine…
—Hamish Henderson’s “The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” is a poetical battle between the forces of creation & destruction
#BookWormSat #poem #poetry
Hamish Henderson, The Flyting O' Life and Daith
Hamish Henderson, The Flyting O' Life and Daith
The brain is the most important organ....according to the brain. They are overrated hope yours sterts behaving soon. Asuuming you have watered feed and aired it.
The brain is the most important organ....according to the brain. They are overrated hope yours sterts behaving soon. Asuuming you have watered feed and aired it.
She wisna aa come.
In the trams o her airms
the wummin held oot her first bairn.
It micht hae been a mercat day
and him for sale…
—Alastair Mackie, “Pietà”
from The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongate.co.uk 2021
#poem #poetry
canongate.co.uk/books/3267-t...
She wisna aa come.
In the trams o her airms
the wummin held oot her first bairn.
It micht hae been a mercat day
and him for sale…
—Alastair Mackie, “Pietà”
from The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongate.co.uk 2021
#poem #poetry
canongate.co.uk/books/3267-t...
📍#Norwich Theatre #Norfolk
📅 19 July
📍#Sterts Arts #Liskeard #Cornwall
📅 26 July
📍Landmark #Ilfracombe #Devon
📅 6 Sept
Info & tix shorturl.at/394Ho
📍#Norwich Theatre #Norfolk
📅 19 July
📍#Sterts Arts #Liskeard #Cornwall
📅 26 July
📍Landmark #Ilfracombe #Devon
📅 6 Sept
Info & tix shorturl.at/394Ho
No, Cleetus. It ain't your country anymore. You'll be dead in 10 years. The rest of us got another maybe 40 to 60 years to live and try to unfuck all the dumb shit his generation did.
No, Cleetus. It ain't your country anymore. You'll be dead in 10 years. The rest of us got another maybe 40 to 60 years to live and try to unfuck all the dumb shit his generation did.
He sounds pretty confident about the prognosis at least. Get well soon, Milton
He sounds pretty confident about the prognosis at least. Get well soon, Milton