#scotslanguage — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #scotslanguage, aggregated by home.social.
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Currently on BBC Sounds: Melvyn Bragg & guests – Rhiannon Purdie, Professor of English & Older Scots at the University of St Andrews; Steve Boardman, Professor of Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh; & Michael Brown, Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews – discuss John Barbour’s epic poem THE BRUS. Written c.1375, it is the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpm8
#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #Scots #Scotslanguage
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The Big Bang Theory of Medieval Scots Literature
10 June, Royal Over-Seas League, London – freeNo surviving works in Older Scots appear until the 1370s, when John Barbour – without warning or explanation for the bemused modern literary historian – produced THE BRUS, a vast chivalric biography of Robert the Bruce. Prof Rhiannon Purdie explores the remarkable & seemingly sudden origins of literature in Scots
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/development/making-waves/lecture-series/
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See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of ScotlandToday, 18 May, is International Museum Day
https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of ScotlandToday, 18 May, is International Museum Day
https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of ScotlandToday, 18 May, is International Museum Day
https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of ScotlandToday, 18 May, is International Museum Day
https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of ScotlandToday, 18 May, is International Museum Day
https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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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/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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)#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch
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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)#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch
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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)#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch
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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)#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch
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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)#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #animation
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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
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #animation
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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
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #animation
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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
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #animation
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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
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #animation
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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
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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 20211/4
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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 20211/4
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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 20211/4
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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 20211/4
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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 20211/4
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #warpoetry #WW2 #VEDay #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #warpoetry #WW2 #VEDay #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #warpoetry #WW2 #VEDay #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #warpoetry #WW2 #VEDay #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #warpoetry #WW2 #VEDay #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScottishElections #politics #ScottishPolitics #ScottishParliament #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScottishElections #politics #ScottishPolitics #ScottishParliament #Scots #Scotslanguage
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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/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScottishElections #politics #ScottishPolitics #ScottishParliament #Scots #Scotslanguage