Dancers
Tall stone, fixed in a garish pas-de-deux fourteen weathered blocks, and one other. A dancing master? A luckless spectator or a sad fiddler making for […]
Poems
Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to the apparent meaning. We invite local writers to share their poems with our readers.
Shearwater
Dark sickle against waves. Masked. Stiff; a salt-swift cutting the wet air and turning on sharp wing points you show white. Turning and turning alternating
The Bird-Watcher’s Guide to the Colonels of Sutherland
The upper echelons of Rosehall society in 1977 were dominated by military retirees here to ply the fishing in Sutherland’s rivers, and to this observer
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Wrens
A fierce winter; the coldest for many years. Here in the village the air hurts. It is minus 27C. Wrens are crammed into an old
Cormorant
A ragged flag on a rock or wreck, anything that pierces the surf from below allowing a hold for flat flappy feet to grip. Wet
Water Bike
Dear Sir, Please help. The enclosed photograph is of my hybrid MZ/BMX/water power off-roader. Light to handle, economic, comfortable, spirited medium heavy-loader, BUT It will
At the river
At the river you can smell this autumn afternoon. Colours cloak the banks with trees, grasses, ferns and fading bracken strewn around a brace of
Short-eared Owl
By Dave Goulder Ten of them, squat at the road edge, wide-eyed to the approaching car, each behind the other, reflecting headlights. Rural cats-eyes
Wind
By Dave Goulder Emerging from my cocoon I try to stand against the blast, and hear a train roaring through very close, but there
Brief Encounter poem
Brief Encounter. Old Steading, Altass Curious, I peered through the non-door and saw old cow stalls, mangers between roof supports, timbers for burning. The new
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