bente’s Reviews > A Year of Scottish Poems > Status Update

jan 13 - “Then who can say, thou happy creature, Thou’rt not the very child of nature”

jan 12 - “He’ll come back an mairry me”

jan 11 - “There never have been any Gallachers next door.”

jan 10 - “Oh saying it was one thing, but when it came to writing it in black and white, the way it had to be said, was as if you were posh, grown-up, male, English and dead.”

jan 9 - “noo that’s a high coo!” because it’s a haiku, get it?!?😭😭

jan 7 - “each leaf a life we might one day live”

jan 6 - “Queen fur aiblins hauf a hunder year,
or ae ferlie nicht, fur juist a blink.”

jan 5 - “and in my experience people found each other quite easy to take or leave”

jan 4 - “She is drawn by threads into the heart of the pattern.”

jan 3 - “because the sounds for happy and dream are the words that swim in the water for him”