Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin’ through the strife,
Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty
Lichts the grey o’ life.
—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May
2/4
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/
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Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn
Wi’ caller verdure our the lawn,
The Gowdspink comes in new attire,
The brawest ’mang the whistling choir…
—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “Ode to the Gowdspink”
from The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson (Glasgow, 1800)
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Scraping an encrustit stane
wi some carved letters, lichent-owre,
an archaeologist, ye glowre;
sae lichtly, lichtly mak it plain…
—Robert Garioch, “…That is Stade in Perplexite…”
from A Kist o Skinklan Things (ASL 2016)
4/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
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Watch an animation of “Sisyphus” online, read by Garioch – via the National Library of Scotland
3/4
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2912
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Bumpity doun in the corrie gaed whuddran the pitiless whun stane.
Sisyphus, pechan and sweitan, disjaskit, forfeuchan and broun’d-aff,
sat on the heather a hanlawhile…
—Robert Garioch, “Sisyphus”
from The Collected Poems of Robert Garioch (Macdonald, 1977)
2/4
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They are lang deid, folk that I used to ken
their firm set lips aa mowdert and agley,
sherp-tempert een rusty amang the cley…
—“Elegy” by Robert Garioch (1909–1981) – born #OTD, 9 May
from The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongatebooks 2021
1/4
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
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Cantie in seaside simmer on the dunes,
I fling awa my dowp of cigarette
whaur bairns hae biggit castles out of sand
and watch the reik rise frae the parapet…
—Robert Garioch Sutherland (1909–1987), “During a Music Festival”
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/
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Dinna be glaikit, dinna be ower smert,
dinna craw croose, dinna be unco blate,
dinna breenge in, dinna be ayewis late,
dinna steek yer lugs, dinna steek yer hert…
—James Robertson, “A Manifesto for MSPs”
published in Voyage of Intent (Scottish Book Trust/Luath Press, 2005)
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/manifesto-msps/
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Moonrise, an maudlin in the mirk,
we coorie in, hoose selt, hame hawked,
oor labour thirled tae yesterday,
the morra pawned fur brick-a-brack…
—Janet Paisley, “Aw Jock Tamson’s”
published in THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF SCOTTISH VERSE, @canongatebooks 2021
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
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The Garden Beyond
A dramatised portrayal of the life of William Soutar that explores his poetry & the political & poetical arguments of his age. Written & produced by Douglas Eadie for BBC Omnibus, first broadcast in 1977 – via the Scottish Poetry Library
7/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f4L7Ip6u2k
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