Assoc for Scottish Literature

You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…

—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008

Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/robin-robertson/at-roane-head

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

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“Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”

—Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

Robin Robertson reads At Roane Head - The Guardian

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