Oh to be at Crowdieknowe
When the last trumpet blaws,
An’ see the deid come loupin’ owre
The auld grey wa’s…

—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Crowdieknowe”
from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry (Carcanet, 2004)

🎨 : “Crowdieknowe”, by Catriona Campbell (b. 1940). Oil on canvas.

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/selected-poetry/

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