Hi Ho Hi Ho Trident’s Got to Go
On YouTube a 60’s newsreel. A black and white Dunoon. A smartly dressed Ban the Bomber waves a To Hell with Polaris placard reminding us...
Schizostilis
Their late blooming spears spill from my beds reliable as the poppy pinned to your coat well into November leave ointment pink medals...
CULLODEN 1746- 2019
Rectangle of grey-green grass and memory Holding 273 years of myth between its fingertips Its air calling to us: Lingering war-cries mix...
Who’s Celebrating this 70th Anniversary?
Mohammed scrunches his eyes to gaze at the forever blue of the sky above the razor wire fence he can feel his quickening breath, moisten...
Helen Crawfurd’s Memoirs in Seven Chapters
From 'Quines,' published by Luath Press in 2018. Born Glasgow 1877, died Dunoon, 1954; political activist, suffragette, and Red...
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PACK
‘Be careful what you pack’ my daughter warned her voice the colour of bruised damsons a battered suitcase yawned on the bed gulping...