Sheena Blackhall: Complete List of Poems

1. The Cyard's Kist: Rainbow Publishing 1984A Guid New Year

Aberdeen Memories

A Sair Miss

Bairn-Sang

Calvary

Eternal Record

Glen Muick.

Halloween

Hedgehogs

Hen’s Lament -

Hist ye back

Homecoming.

Images

In Absentia.

Johnny

Kith and Kin

Library

Loch Muick

Lost Youth

Mither Tongue

Pet Shop

Requiem

Roots

Shuffled Pack

Sklaik

Sunday School Picnic.

Teem Slate

The Bogie

The Cyard’s Coortin’

The Cyard’s Kist

The Dominic

The Falls of Muick -

The Lintie

The Sodjer

The Tryst

Urban Development - Cairnie Phase .

2. The Spik o the Lan: Rainbow Publishing 1986

A MITHER TINTBALMENNIE’S NELLBREEM BEDDITBULLCONDEMNED BUILDINGDALRIGGINDISPOSSESSIONDOON AN OOT

DORIC’S NO DODOFISHIE’S VANFOUR BAIRN SANGSGLOAMINHALLOWEENHORSE HURLJIST DANLAND HUNGERLETER FROM A DISTRESSED AUNTIELOT’S WIFEMISS MCBRODIIENARCISSUSNICHT FEARSNOAHOPHELIIAPASTORALPOINTS OF A COMPASSTHE COUNTRY DOCTORTHE FUNERALTHE GOWK AND THE STARTHE HOLOCAUSTTHE REIVERTHE ROUNDABOUTTHE SERPENT’S SANGTHE SPAE WIFETHE SPIK O THE LANTHE TEA PAIRTYTHE THWARTED SUITORTHE TIMKER’S SANGTIME SCALETOWSERTWA BAIRN DAYS X2TWO POEMS IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE X2 WINTER WOOINWIRDS

3. Hamedrauchtit: Rainbow Publishing 1987A Daunder ben Eden

Aboyne Games

Alpha and Omega

Auld Will

Bailater Bairnhood

Beaker Scot

Coull Kirkyard

Dee JourneyDestinyDwaum

Ferret in the Snow

Glen Muick i’ the Suddron Tongue

Glen Muick-i’the Mither Tongue -

Hame-drauchtit

Haundit Doon -

Heelstergowdie -

Kennin

Last Step

Love which is not a Word

Man in the Moon

Monaltrie’s Men

Ower Blate

Peat-Gaitherin, Birse

Phantasmagoria

Phoenix

River Ferlies -

Salmon Leap

Springin Cromar

The Back o Beyond

The Bonnie Banks o Dee

The Cuckoo Clock

The Poacher

The Slichtit Lassie’s Sang

The Stag, Cernunnos

Tomnaverie

Twa Burns

Twa Chiels

Twa Views o Glen Gairn

Watter

War-Time

Year’s End ‘

4. Nor East Neuk: Charles Murray Trust 1989#EVE an OEDIPUSA GIBBON ON EVOLUTIONACROSS A CROWDED ROOMBAIRN RHYMEBATBITTER SWEETBLIN ROBINBUIK LEARNINGCELESTIAL DISCOURSECROCKERY IN CONFABCUCKOODAWN AN GLOAMINDEID HAWK

EURYDICEFALLING ASLEEPGALLERYGENERATION GAPGILLIE CALLUMGRANNY’S PETGRAY’S SCHOOL OF ARTHEILAN GAMESHOLY WILLIESINCOMMUNICADOINTERCITYJEZEBELJOSEPH GILLANDERSJUMBOLADY IN WAITINGLANDLAST TANGO IN ABERDEENLATIN MISTRESSLEAFLITTER O LOVEMADAM BUTTERFLYMEDITATION NUMMER ANEMITHER TONGUENOR EAST NEUKNOR SEAOLD MR WORLDPATT6ERNS O LIFEPHOBIASPRODIGALPUPPETEERREFLECTIONSRESPONSIBLEROOm FUR REMEmBRANCESEED CYCLESISYPHUSSTRANGERS TAK TENTSTRATHBOGIE SPRINGSUFI OOR-GLAISSSUGAR N SPICESUNDAY SERVICETANTALUSTHE ARCHAEOLOGISTTHE ARCHING SYCTHE

THE BOUNDLESS SEATHE BRIDGETHE CORBIETHE DALLTHE GORBLIETHE GRANARYTHE LAKETHE PEARLTHE PUDDENTHE RITES O HAIRSTTIME LORDSTOUCHRAINBOWSTRUE TAMMASTWA FERLIESTWA ROADS TILL AN ENDULYSSESUNICORN IN UNION STREETVILLAGE SHOPVISITORS

1. Fite Doo/ Black Crow: Keith Murray Publications 1989 ISBN 1 870978 20XA STANE BI THE ALLT DARRARIEABERDONIANADDERAIR-RAID SHELTERAN ELEVATOR STOPPEDANGERAS ITHER’S SEE USAT THE GALLERYAUTUMN CITYBALLATER BAIRNHOODBARLEYBIRD’S EYE VIEWBRIDEBUTS AN BENSCANUTECARN NA CUIMHNECATCHAMELEONCHILDRENCHRISTMAS BLUES

COALDAFFODILS DELINQUENT’S SANGDOOKINDORICDREAMEARTHEMBRO TOUNEVEFEATHERFERRYMANFIR WIDFOR GEORGE BRUCEFOR JOSEPH FARQUHARSON RAGANGREL’S SANGGREEN PERACEGUID AN EVILHAIRST-HEIRSKIPHAUD GAUNHAUNSHEILAN TOASTICONOCLASTIDENTITYINSTINCTJEAN, BUCHAN WARD, CORNHILLLAIK -WAKE LAMENTLANG-LEGGED TAMLEAFLIBRARIAN READINGLINN O DEELINN O QUOICHLUE THY NEIBOURMA DEARIEMOLEMUIR O DINNETMULTIPLE HAIKUNAE BOUNDARIENANCY WHISKYNICHT DRIVINNICHT VISITORNOR EAST SECTIONOEANOF MAKKARSOF TRAVEL

OLD SCHOOL NOOSEON A READING IN GAELICPALETTEPOSSESSIONSPOSTMAN’S KNOCKPSYCHIATRISTQUASIMODOQUEEN’S CROSSSEAGULLSEA-SANGSECINT BIRTHSELF PORTRAIT AT 42SIDE SHOWSIT SICCARSSIX HAIKUSNASPECIIMANSPIDERSYCAMORETAK TENTTHE AIN THAT GOT AWATHE CRICKET AN THE ANTTHE HEIRESSTHE HOASTTHE LECHTTHE MEADOWS OF THE MINDTHE OPEN YETTTHE ROUPTHE SEASONS’ SOIREETHE STATETHE SWICKTHE TRYSTTHE UNCA GUIDTHE WINTHE YIRD AN THE MEENTOUCHTOURIST TRADEVAN GOCHVANISHING ABERDEENVINCENT’S BEDROOM IN ARLESVIVA AIBERDEENWATTERWINTERWINTER BURIAL

2. A Toosht o Whigmaleeries: Hammerfield Publishing 1991

AlanenessAutumnBallad; Begetters; BydandCharlie ChattsChristmas GrottoCockroach; Cooper & HayCorn Dolly; Corrichie; Dentist; Divorce; Dole Q Blues; Donna Buchan; Doric-Reggae-Spider-RapDrinking StagDuthie ParkEvil; Farewell to a Fleet; FlyForhooiedForth Rail Brig; Fower Scots HaikuGale; GerbilsGoose in the ParkGunHauns; Hello 1992, Goodbye ‘91; HogmanayHorse-Chestnut; KelpieKob AntelopeLast Rites; Letter frae a Distressed Heidie; Lily of the ValleyLooking Glass of a Foxy LadyMairtimas; Maisie C.ManfraMemory Rules,0.K.?; Mister McCafferty;mister toad; MooseNicht; Ninety;O’Riley was an Orchestra; Oh Lovely as a LilyOverheard at the Synod; Owersettins frae the Gaels XXXXXXPheasantPoem-Making; PollutionRabbitRaggie Maggie; Resettings of Japanese Haiku XXXXXResettings of TAng Dynasty poets; XXXXXXRoomsRugged Rascal; Single ParentStill Life;

The Hen’s Fareweel tae the MiddenThe Bodach’s Byre; The toun in Merch; The Clunie Burn; The Dog o the MiddenThe Halfin’s JoeThe PoemThe Queen o Bon AccordThe Scottish Antisyzygy; The Stane; The Tongue; Three Shape Poems xxxTwinkle Twinkle Little StarWalk on; Yalla

3. Back o Bennachie: Hammerfield Publishing 1993A Drap o Bluid Faas in the WineA Microscopic AlienA Thistle Luiks at a Drunk ManAiberdonian RecipeAu Clair de la LuneAuld Brig o Dee (Invercauid)Back o’ Bennachie: BalladDislikes: Dreamscape: Ego SumExcess Baggage: Fin I wis Fower an TwentyFire DanceFox: Grounded (Short Story)Hannah the HerdHatches Hinna GottaI am a Doric Stereotype: Incomers: Lament fur the Mither Tongue: Let the Records ShowLinn o Quoich: Ma Saul an I gaed Waukin: Mair HaikuMoosie, Moral DilemmaMrs B: Mushrooms: North East Nineties RapOctoberOf Pharaohs and Sardines: Onchancy: Original SinPeregrineRain-CycleScots Owersettins Freely Transcribed frae the Inglis Translations xxxxxxxxxSnoot n MouSquirrelStinkie, Takk the Buckles frae yer Sheen: The Bitin Game: The Chairman o the Panel

The Dinosaur: The Fish Gutter’s SangThe GossipThe Gowfer: The Gull Spikks Oot: The Hallierackit Heilander: The Hindu and the PandaThe Hinmaist Wird: The KeepsakeThe Leddie She Rides Jimp ‘n’ Sma: The Lion RampantThe Punk: The SheltThe Tale o Victor Vratch the CrawThe Tale o’ Rory the Stag (Bairn Tale)The TattiebogleThe WhigmaleerieThe Yang/Yin SangTomnaverieWhen I Stepped out of my Name: whiteYule:

4. Druids, Drachts, Drochles: Hammerfield Publishing 1994

A Thing of Beauty is a Joy ForeverABC. Alcudia.Bairn SangsBirdsang.Blue Bog. Bride & Groom.Bud.Bumble. Care. Daddylanglegs. Daith.Dauncers Doggerel. Doon in the Glen. Doric Food Rap. Endangered Species. Fairm Toun.FengshuiGarlogie School.Heich fur Houghmagandie.Here’s the kirk.I cast ma net.I’m growing old. In this Braif Toun’: Ins an Oots.JanuarJob Market. Kirk. lost.Toun Midgies. Mileage.Mistress Craw. No 636 Union Street (Bruce Miller’s) Owersettins frae Colotes. xxxxOwersettins frae Islam xxxx

Owersettins frae Kahlil Gibran xxxxxOwersettins frae Yunus Emre. xxxxxOwlParadise Prune StonesQuasimodo. Roman Villa, Simmer Strand.Simmer’s End. Skyscraper Faimly. Snailie. Sports DaySwanSwan Song. Tae the Sun.Tammy Tod. The AuldThe Bombing.The Burn & the Ben. The Futterat. The Heilan Fling.The Hornygollach.The Keepsake.The Man in the MeenThe Quoich. The Sang o AmheirginThe Scottish Bairnies’ Maker.Trial by Cutlery. Twa Haiku. Willie Tawse’. Winter. Yule & Simmer.

5. Stagwyes: Charles Murray Trust 1995 ISBN 09521142 59

A Drap o Bluid Faas in the Wine

Al-Maarri (Persian, d. 1058)

A Thing Of Beauty Is A Joy

Adder

Allt Darrarje — Burn of the Stunning Noise,

Autumn

Back o Bennachie

Bairn-Song

Ballad

Barley

Bat

Beaker Scot

Bog

Breem Beddjt

Bull

Corn Dolly

Daith’s Frien

Dawn an Gloam

Dee Journey

Delinquent’s Song

Doon an Oot

Earth

Embro Toun

Eurydice

Eve

Evil

Forever

Glen Muick

Glen Muick

Gloamin

Gun

Hairst-Heirskip

Hannah the Herd

Heelstergowdie

Heich Fur Houghmagandie!

I am a Doric Stereotype

Land

Land Hunger

Lang-Legged Tam

Loch o Abyne

Lost Youth

Lot’s Wife

Ma Saul an I Gaed Waukin

Man in the Moon

Multiple Haiku

Nicht Fears

Nor’ Sea

Pastoral

Peat Gaitherin, Birse

Phantasmagoria

Pine

Room fur Remembrance

Salmon Leap

Sang till the Unborn Bairn

Screived fur a Pictur

Simmer’s End: Deeside

Sna

Snoot n’ Mou

Spring in Cromar

The Boundless Sea

The Clunie Burn

The Flee

The Halflin’s Jo

The Hinmaist Wird

The Keepsake

The Lake

The Lion Rampant

The Rites o Hairst

The Serpent’s Sang

The Slichtit Lassie’s Sang

The Stag, Cernunnos

The Tryst

Three Shape Poems

Tornnaverje

Vincent’s Bedroom in Aries,

Winter Woojn

Year’s End

Yule

6. Lament fur the Raj: G.K.B Enterprises 1996 ISBN 0952 655403

Angus Calder: A Strand of FiddlersAnither Time, Anither Place;

AntigoneBàrdachd Galdhlig

Clachan in Blin-Drift; Colours

Death, Where is Thy Sting?Derrick McClure: A Prayer for the Leid

Family FavouritesGimme-Time Blues

Haiku: José .Juan TabladaIn the Monastery; Jet in the Gloamin

Joy Hendry: On Sheena BlackhallKen Morrice: Sangstress

Lament for the RajMeditation

MeyNeon City

NichtOor Lives arc Burnies

Pheasant an ArraRam on the MoorRam on the Muir

Spring Dawn;Spring the Postie;

Spring, the River, Flooers, The Ark

The Birr o Tractors;The Hero

The Littlinthe Meen:

The Sang o the SeannachieThe UFO

Thoombnail TheologyTod in the Toun

VillanelleWanted

William Neil!: They say: what say they? Lat thaim say Wy/ins Frae A Festschrift fur Sheena Blackha//

Zen

7. The Life Bluid o Cromar: Hammerfield Publishing 1997.Saxteen Japanese Haiku xxxxxxxxx

Seeven Poems frae the Orient, xxxxxxxx

Watter-Music,

Ae Greek Poem

Ae Moroccan,

After the Parrty’s Over

Ane Hymn fur Hymen

Braemar Gaitherin

Brooders

Bull

Bus Hurl

Clean Connached,

Davie Green the Grocer Oh,

Dream City

Felled Wood,

Finnish Poem

Ghaistie

Giro-Land,

Girse,

Grace

Heilan Breeze,

Hornygollach Games

I am a Poem,

Ibiza, Ibiza,

Idols

In Coilie’s Wid

In Ma Faither’s Clachan

In the Glen far I wis Young.

Lament fur a Bard

Leddylanners,

Leopard (Yoruba)

Industrial Relations,

Lochnagar(1),

MacCaig

Mair Sangria Por Favor

Mango Eater

Mar Mediterraneo

Marriage

Masonic Temple

Maths Teacher,

Memory,

November,

Oh Gently Gently Rins the Dee

On Supposed Sighting of a Haggis

OWERSETTINS - The Hag o Beare (Irish),

Parents,

Rain Cycle,

Return of an Unpleasant Guest,

SOS.

Spring,

Storm

Technology

Telephone Call,

The Black Colonel,

The Chaumer

The Check-Oot Quines Lament

The Draught,

The Gairden,

The Gowk

The Jogger

The Legacy,

The Life Bluid 0 Cromar,

The Local

The Magical Tower

The Plaid,

The Poetry of Sorley MacLean

The Purist’s Poseetion,

The Shielin Guest Hoose

The Torry Terror

The Waddin

Thochts,

Three Auncient Egyptian Poems xxx

Three Poems in December xxx

To a Teenage Daughter

Toun an Kintra,

Towrists,

Triptych

Tryst wi a Hedgehog,

TV Toppers

Twa Eastern European Poems xx

Village Clock

Weather,

Widow,,

Winter

Xmas

12. Gliong Gliong: Hammerfield Publishing 1997 * Sine NicThearlaich (Gaelic& Scots)AIBERDEEN

BAIRN O THE MUIR

BLAIK WYVER

BLYTHENESS

HEILAN BREEZE

KITTLIN

LEDDYLANNERS

LOCHNAGAR

MA FAIMLY

MEMORY

MERRIEGE

PARENTS

RETURN O AN UNSOCHT GUEST

SPRING (1) & (2) xx

THOCHTS

THRANG TOUN

WIDDA

YON IS NAE MA LOON

1. Millennium Blues: Hammerfield Publishing 1999

A WALK IN A MONASTERY GARDEN.

AN E-MAIL TO THE MOON

AULD CA1LLEACH

AUNT MAY

CA-CANNIE

COLIN’S CATTLE

CYCLIN UP GLEN

DAYBREAK

DIET

FUR A NEW FAND BRITHER.

I REMEMBER.

IAIN DUBH’S LAMENT

JANUARY

LETIER TO A DEAD MAKAR

MAISTER PUDDOCK

MAISTER TAED

MILLENIUM BLUES

MUCKLE HUMPHREY

NICHT-FAA

ODE TO AN UNKIND REVIEWER

OIL

SAE LUELY LUELY R]NS THE BURN

SAMYE-LING

SHRINE IN THE WOODS

SNAILIE

SONNET FUR NI DHOMHNAILL

SPINNERS IN SPACE

SUBTENANTS

TATTIE HOWKERS

THE BARON BAN

THE BURN BI THE GREEN LOCHAN

THE DEE,

THE ESKDALE YOWE

THE GORBLIE

THE HEDONIST

THE LASS 0 BRAEGARRIE

THE LITTLE TREE

THE MINIMALIST’S GUIDE TO GLEN GA1RN

THE PIPER’S COORT]N

THE POWSER.

THE PRIDE 0 TULLICH

THE THREE GRACES

THE TRAFFIC LICHTS SANG

THE WISHENG TREE.

TWA FUTTERATS.

TWO LINE,ONE WORD,SHAPE POEMS. XXXXXXXXXX

VILLEIN-ILL

WAITRESS.

WHAT DO CRICKETERS DO IN WINTER?

2. The Hielanman's Sporran: /G.K.B.Enterprises 1999 ISBN0952655438

A CROCUS OPENS

A FLIGHT OF SWANS

A PIEBALD SKY

AHIN THE KNOCK

AL QING

ALANENESS

BACK EYN O THE YEAR

BEGGAR IN THE DOORWAY

CATALLUS POEM C1

CATALLUS POEM XXX1

CATALLUS A CLANDESTINE AFFAIR

DAITH O APRINCESS

DEVOLUTION

FUNERAL

GAMBLIN CHIELS

GILLANDER’S QUAICH

GOLFER’S BLUES

HAMEDRAUCHTIT

HOGMANAY

HUMAN PATHS

KEEKIN AT FUSHES

MENTOR

OLD HOUSES

ON BARDERIE

PARALLEL STROLLS

RICHT ROYAL DRAM

SCIENCE

SOUN O THE NICHT

STAG AT BAY

SWALLOW

TARLAN SHOW

THE HEILANMAN’S SPORRAN

THE BEE

THE BLAIKIE’S SANG

THE BLATE LUVER

THE CAT AND I ARE BONDING

THE CHASTE WIFE’S REPON

THE FOWER AGES O MAN

THE GEESE GYANG HAME

THE KILL

THE LAIK-WAKE VIGIL

THE LAW O ASYLUM

THE MAID O BENNACHIE

THE SERPENT ‘S SANG

THE STOOKIT SHAIF

THE WALLIE

TRIADS

ULYSSES

WINGS OF DEATH

WYTIN IN LINE

XLI YUNUO

XMAS BLUES

YULE

15. Death, Demons, Perfume and Pearls : Limousine Bull 1999

A WHEEN HAIKU

CLOCK FACE WOMAN

DANCE OF DEATH

GRIOGORAICH

HAME

LOCH VOILE

MARRIAGE

RED BALLOON

SPURGIE

STONE STAIRWAY

THE KELPIE

WHY CAN’T

16. The Twa B's: Shopmobility 2000African MerketBogCryptDominoes HoosiesLow Ebb Milly Frae TillyMother won’t mindNight OwlsPolis Maitter RoseSilver The Beautiful Snails The Forvie BraesThe Green BooerThe Wirm

Velasquez veesits a ferm kitchie in SkeneWylin fur the bus

17. The Telepathic Butcher's Boy: SPA 2000PURPLE. REINCARNATIONREQUIEM OF AN OFFICE WORKERSOOKERS. THE WEATHER FORECASTWHITEWOBBLY.

18. The Singing Bird: G.K.B. Enterprises 2000 ISBN 0952655446

Ae Mey Morning Autumn at King’sCornfield MemoryDéjeuner en Plein AirDogDour Winter’s Daen DreichElphinstane’s Salute tae Drum CastleFalling Leaves at King’s CollegeFailureFebruar: Howe o CromarFoo Dae Fowk?HugoI am the BouerIn ParliamentKaleLarickLetter Tae a far CountrieLife’s Muckle CairtMile End RevisitedMuseNightatNiggBayNocturne: Torry BridgeOn a Prehistoric Child’s RattlePictures at an ExhibitionPortree: In Memoriam lain Crichton SmithReincarnationScotlandSic BlythenessSmother-MotherSt Machar’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, 1999Ta-Ta at the HinnereynThe Broch (for George Bruce on his Ninetieth Birthday)The Chap o TwalThe Flooer (after Alexander Pushkin)The ReaperThe Singer (after Alexander Pushkin)The Singing BirdThe Stag on the Brae an the Wee Wee SangThe Wirm in the AippieThree Deeside Don QuixotesWaddins at King’s CollegeWhy I Like SingingWiddershins WorldWinter Walk, Glen Muick

Breughel’s PaintbrushCeevilisationChristmas Day

Coming and GoingEnds and BeginningsGloaminHogmanayHouseIn Barnardo’s WindowInter-KittyKey to the KingdomLuvMasculine LogicMillennium HogmanayMiss HeroinMr Bleaney’s RoomOn Eirde as it is in HeivenPersephonePrimal AngstPurpleSteeplechase: the Creative Challenge CupSuckling SowThe Famous PoetThe Mither Kirk o AiberdeenThe Only Bloody Hill in ScotlandThe Scott PlatformThe VeesitorThird EyeTimeTristesseTwo Poems from the Chinese XXWhite

19. Dancing with Maenads: Keith Murray Publishing 2000A Very Superior Pussy. Wooden JacketAberdeenAeniad:Bulk Vi.Alice.AirportAutumn 1. Autumn 2. Bus Hurl: Aberdeen- KeithByron Square, NorthfieldCatChanticleer’s Wife.Collection DayFire.GloamingGoatHand LuggageHumanity ManseI maun gyang down tae the Quay again. Ice CreamInternet. Littlin, Low EbbOn Passing a Used Condom on the way to Humanity ManseOverheard at the Exhibition. Peppermint and a Carnation.Polish Day.

PylonQueen’s Cross. Sci-fi in Suburbia’ Scotch n’ WatterScott House: Amerada Hess Song of an Impoverished AberdonianSouth Silver Street CrossingStarsTattie Howkers. StarsThe Bramble Picker - -The BusThe Citadels of SandThe Gull Spikks BackThe MoonThe Nor East WindThe Powser. TiesTint.Tree. Twa Hoodieswww.bonaccordcentre.co.uk

20. Skin Balaclava: Finavon Print and Design ISBN 0-9528813-7-3 2000 A FLATULENCE O PUDDOCKS

A NORTH EAST ZEN KOAN

BERVIE BRAES

BRAES O SKENE

BREAKTHROUGH

CASTLEGATE DOO

COCKEREL

COTTAR HOOSE

COWS

CULLERLIE WID

EARS

FALCON

FAREWELL MY LOVE

FISH

FOR JIM, FIVE YEARS DEAD

GATE CRASHER

GATES OF ST. MACHAR’S CATHEDRAL

GOOSE

GRADUATION DAY

GULL

HIGHLAND DAWN

HOGMANAY

HUNTLY HAWK

IDEAL HOME

LAST ONE OFF THE TREE

LATE NIGHT BUS

LITTLE BIRD

NIGHT CITY

ORGY IN FORRES

SAINT VALENTINE’S DAY, GLESGA

SCRUBBER

SEA SANG

SEAMUS HEANEY’S PEN

ST MACHAR’S CATHEDRAL

SUBLIMATION - EROS AND THE MUSE

SUNDAY BEACH

SWING HIGH, SWING LOW

THE AENEID VI

THE ALCHEMY OF POETRY

THE BAWD

THE BISHOP’S BELLS

THE CHANONRY

THE MEENLICHT LOCHAN

THE WELL AT KING’S

THE WYE O THE WIRM

TURNING THE PAGES

VEESITOR’S CENTRE UNICORN

WAR TOURIST

WINTER BEECH

WOMAN

21. Spik nae Evil: Gordon Booth Publications ISBN 0 9526554 5 4 2001BAACASTLE CREEPIECROCODILECUPIDDENTISTGIRNY GEORDIE BUCHANHILDA THE HIPPOHOOLETJUMBOKUNG-FU-CHUCKENPETER PERCY PENGUINPRU THE COOPUDDOCKRHONA RHINOCEROUSSNAKETHE COMPETITORTHE DINOSAURTHE MONSTER’S PLEATHE TALE O GEORDIE THE GERBILTHE TALE O PLINKY FAE PLONGWINNIE WIDDERSHINS THE WITCHYASMIN THE YOWE

22. Bringing up theTail:Finavon Print and Design ISBN 0-9541689-0-9 2001ANGEL-FACE

BOAR

DEFLOWERING

DUTHIE PARK

FEY FERLIES

FOO MONY HOOLETS?

FUSSLIN JOCK

GHOST STORY HEARD AT A BUS STOP

GLOBAL HOGMANAY

HIGHLAND COW

ICONS 0 SCOTLAND

JOHN BARLEYCORN

JUSTICE NEUK

LEAD WOLF

LOCKED DOOR

ODE TO A PAT1O

RAP ON THE MODERN IN-BRITS IN POETRY

SEA GOD

SIMMER BI GARLOGIE

ST MACHAR’S CATHEDRAL

THE CHANGELING KYRIELLE

THE HERRIN FLEET

THE ROSEBUD

THE TUNE THAT LOWPED AFF O THE FIDDLE

THE VRICHT O KING’S: MEDIAEVAI. MAKKARS

TOUN JUNCTION

TREE

WINTER, CRAIG ENDARROCH, I)EESI I)E (extracts)

23 Boorich o Breets: Severin Books 2002

A Sabre Tooth Tiger ReflectsAn Open Letter of Complaint to Loch NessBathroom Bogle

Beetle

Birds from a Hospital Window

Black Mamba Mama

BowfinChuddy

Cow

Dead Robin

Death of a Rabbit

Deid Stag’s Sang

Dragons

Duck

Ducks on the Dee

Field Moose

Fly

Fruit Bat

Fur

Geese, New Deer

God Backwords

Goose-Herd

Gull

Hedgehog

In the Middle of the Night

Invocation to the Egyptian Sun-God Re fae an Aiberdeen cooncil Bakkie

Kim Hippopotamus

Kitty the Croc

Lamb

MogNew Deer Sheep

Opal

Pan

Peacock at Cullerlie

Phoenix on the Wall

Poodles

Rabbits out of Hats

Rat

Ruby

Screeching Gull (1

Screeching Gull (2)

Seagull

Serpent

Sheep

Skinnymalinkie Centipede

Smokey Duggan the Campus Cat

Sparrowhawk.

Sphinx and Chimaera

Spider

Spider’s Web

Taddies

The Albatross

The Bawd bi the Dee

The Boddam Cat

The CrowTrap

The Doo o Peace

The Futterat Poem

The Gurks: Hamish, lzzy

The Hawk’s performance at Woodend Barn

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Sighting

The Minotaur

The Necromancer’s Tiger

The Peregrinations of a Pluscarden Aphid

The Taxidermist’s Fox steps out of his sawdust pelt

The Tiger

The Unicorn

Three Wise Sheep

Toads in March

Wee Glesga Hen

Wee Laird o the air

Werewolves

Willie WirmYowe’s Lament to the Ram

Yowes on Knowes

24 A Boorich o Fowk: Severin Books 2003A Fairmer’s Stance on Mowdies

A Partial Rainbow

A Poem About Unwritten Stories with a Rural Settin

A Rhetorical Ode to Balmoral Midgies

A Visit to Rome

An Appeal fae a Cuddy-Ainer

Balquidder Super- Hero

Benedictines

Church and Still Horizon (I)

Church and Still Horizon (II)

Cod ee-d Kate

Crystal Sea (I) and (II)

Dulse an the Santoor Dulcimer

Faldie: A Buchan Fermer

Firm Staun the Braes

Green Belt Blues

Magic Flute

Mechanical Yeomen

Meditation

Naiad

People Who Visit

Pluscarden Abbey

Safe Haven (I) and (II)

Sea Dog (I)

Sea Dog (II)

Sea Lass

Sentinel (I) and (II)

Staunin Stane

Stroke

The Big Gray Man o Ben MacDhui

The Loss o Laneliness

The Pig-Man’s Companions: Suckling Sow Hugo xx

The Tarland Wizard

Twitchers of Tyrebagger Alert

Vespers

Vigil

Wiston:

Woods

A Country Minister Watches a Perching Eagle

Airport Landin

Basho at the Wigtown Book Festival

Beach

Deeside Fowk in Winter

Evil Hedgehog

Fit Like Mr High Rise?

Fly-cup Makker

Fruit Bearers

Geordie Jamesone

Highland Village

Hooligan

Ideal Pet fur an Ideal Hame

In a Survivor’s Gairden

In the Park

Katy Beardie

Mithers’ Meetin

Mr McCafferty

On the Bus

Pollution

Rainy Nicht

Simmer Wauk, Brig o Dee

Skyscraper Faimly

The Aiberdonian

The Green Licht: Alternative Transport

The Laird o Mist an Muir

The Lan Far Ballads Growe

The Law Court

The Ramblers’ Poem

The Road

The Traffic Light’s Perspective on Pedestrians

Timmer Mairket

Trinity Hall

Two Note Joe

Unner the Plooman’s Buit

View o Aiberdeen

Village

Walrus Villanelle

Wednesday Again

With My Elbow on the Counter of the Bar

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25Queeriorrals: Severin Books 2003

A Poem about Famous Doorknobs

Charon’s Passengers

Flowers

Hope

I’m Pulling Myself Together

Jacob’s Ladder

Leftovers

Moustaches

New Cottage Industry: Egg-HeadScotch an Wry

Sleep Fast, We Need the Pillows

TarotThe Alchemist

The Clay Speaks to the Potter

The Psychiatrists’ SafariThe Thinker

Bleeding Angels

Cat-Scan: A Brain’s Soliloquy

Crunch Time

Deevilick, Deevilick

Druid

Journey to the Amitobha Buddha, Forres

King Charles I

Leather

Oo

Poem Factory

Poem Train

Silk

1. Cradlit, Coortit, Waddit, Kistit : Severin Books 2003 (Winnlestrae) A Social Eddy

Adultery

An Open Letter to Mr MacNormal

Angel-Face

Annie’s Sang

Brahms an Liszt

Bride

Brother

Candlemas: The Purification of the Virgin

Central Belt

Chaunce Encoonter

D.N.A.

Dead Wood

Déjà Vu

Echtsome Reels

Fitstep

Flirt

Funeral

Homage to the Ancestors

I Believe

Julian Petrocles Proctor-Jones

Junkie’s Jewels

Maelstrom

TableThe Dream

The Montrose Song

The Worry

Maternity

Myndin on Granda

Ophelia

Parkin Lot Nummer 44

Past Tense

People-Provider

Ravelins

Salute tae Toronto

Scraps from a Wedding Album

Soundscape

Still Life with Knife

The Low Road Hame

The Marriage of Blue and Yellow

The Massacre of the Innocents

The Moon Speaks

The Neebor

The Send-Aft

The Tryst

The Watcher in the Grass

The Young Achilles Lies Apairt fae his Armour

Tickin Clock

Visit to a Brother’s Girlfriend

Waterbabes

Wedding Party

Widow

Winnlestrae

Young Toun Crazies Rule, OK

2. The Dule Tree: Finavon Print and Design ISBN 0-9541689-6-8 2004 A Concrete PoemA Dip in the Pool A Poem for the Ace of Clubs at 3 am

A Postcard from EnglandAuld Man o the Sea Birthday Blips in Transmission Buchan in Winter

Burn WatterCock-Craw Country Bus

Dark Night of the TreesDauncin Bear. Death

Displacement

Drinking Crow in the River Sid

Easter LammieEird Hoose Epiphany Forever and Ever Four Small Ducklings Enter an EquationGranmither Harem Hauns Hindu Coo, HorseHowdie Incantation

It’s a Sair Fecht Jacob’s Ladder, Sidmouth, NoonJaipur PigJuly in ArlingtonKang-a-roo

Keeking GlaissMagnificent Dali Midgie MatrixMonkey, City Palace, Jaipur Moon

Mugging a Slug

Nine Monsters at a PartyOld Woman Old Woman & Pig.On Telling a Werewolf Story Pass-word PiIlow-Pouer/ Faain asleep on the Job Salute tae the Smithsonian Sanctuary WoodSchemie Bairns School Visit of a Scots SpecialistSnake Charmer, Uttar Pradesh SunThe Artist’s Store The Changlin Burn

The Dule TreeThe Dying Room The Elephant PoemThe Flooers o War The Heron

The Lambing

The Last Hillman

The Learning Curve

The Pieta of Stone and Twig

The Regional Accents o Puddocks

The SaddhuThe Shoes Three Breets seen frae a Bus Windae Twa Queens Victorian Bairns Wasps’ NestWolf Prints Worm

3. Diminishing Lines…………..Thistle Reprographics 2004A Brocher’s Fareweel, A Jesus Sandwich, A Slice of Sunday, AffirmationBluebell WoodBon AccordBridge of DonBrig o Balgownie (1)Brig o Balgownie(2)Coastal Episode, Conference of SnailsDaisy ChainDhanakosaDialogue with TableDiminishing Lines, Diving for Poems,

Epitaph for a HealerFridge, GullsHospital, In a Hindu Temple, InterlopersKai-moon’s Dip, LatchyLazarus, Melancholia, Midnight House, Now and AgainOrangePantheist in a Hey ParkPebbles, PeppercornPersley Walled GardenPollockshields East, River in May,Ruin in a CornfieldSeaman on a Stormy PierSeascape Seawashed, SecretsShopping Trolley, Show me your Shining Teeth, Singing Event, Sky, Sea, Beach, The Existential Dilemma of Ordinary Objects, The Hiccuping DirectoryThe Horticultural Poem, The MartThe Merriege o ConvenienceThe Prosthesis speaks, The Telling PoemThe VeesitorThe Veggies’ Response to the Vegan, The Washing, The Yalla YeitieTitles of Incubating Poems, Tree BarkTree of Life, Tree, Visibility Moderate, WaaWave, Winter’s wytin roon the Neuk,

4. Preparing to meet the Minotaur………Thistle Reprographics 2004A Book comes off the peg.

A Horse is an Honest Species.

A Letter from the Archangel Gabriel.

Alistair.

Auld Crocs.

Birthday Boy.

Boulder.

Braille Land.

Bugs Migraine.

Bull Leaper.

Caught on the Hop.

Citizen Seagull.

Commodities.

Crabs and Haloes.

Crossing the Rubicon.

Curtain Call.

Daffodil.

Death of a Fox.

Death of an Eel.

Degas Absinthe Drinker.

Deid Balloon.

Diamond Carrot.

Double-barrelled.

Dragon-fly.

Facilitator(ii).

Fever Ward.

Filleter(i)

Footprints.

For Tessa Ransford.

Fur.

Furniture.

Gaudeamus lgitur.

Ghaistly Dauncers.Greyfriars Bobby Discovers Balquidder.

Harebell.

Home Sweet Home.

Job Description.

Judas.

Lean Pickings.

Les Fleurs du Mal.

Lily Pad.

Loaded Question.

Luikin in the Coffin.

Marie Antoinette in the country.

Maths Co-ordinates.

Matter.

mr poseidon.

Mr Success.

Nettle Rules, OK.

Not Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Office.

Old Trout.

On Cloning.

On Singin Gallawa Hills.

On Supply.

Panacea.

Playgrun Fecht.

Poem Path in the Botanics

Preparing to meet the Minotaur.

Prison.

Punctual.

Robes.

Sam Coleridge’s Favourite Tipple.

Seen from a Low Flying Helicopter.

Shards.

Skeletons off Prince’s Street.

Sleep.

Small Movements on the Shore.

Snail’s Nuptials.

Snow.

Strange Converse.

Tart and Cream.

The Burning Brand.

The Computer’s Day oot.

The Gracefu Trinity.

The Primary Source.

The Question. Age.

The Rocher Brew.

The Sangster.

The Scottish Year (continued).

The Scottish Year.

The Villanelle Therapy.

Thochts on Meevement.

Three Craas an the Law o Karma.

Three Tinkers.

Toothache.

Tussle.

Twa Brithers at Seaton Chippie.

Under the Full Moon.

Waddin Toast.

Walking Meditation.

Wee Fite Rose.

What Lies Behind the Word.

Willow Pattern.

Wish Giver.

Wishbone.

Wolf Pack.

You.

Yule.

Zebra.

5. The Wizard o the North……………………Thistle Reprographics 2004Big Issue

Diet

Doric Food RapElly Broon

European Scots

Frankenstein’s Lullaby

Ghaists an Bogies

Gimme Time Blues

Halloween (I)

Halloween (I)

Hauns

Hingin oot the WashinHinna GottaLetter fae a Distressed Heidie

Ma Deane Maisie CNewspapers

Raggie Maggie

Romans

Egypt

Skyscraper Faimily

SOS

The Bombing

The Check Oot Quine’s Lament

The Dinosaur

The Fish Gutter;s Sang

The Sodjer

The Tattiebogle

The Traffic Licht’s Sang

The Unfeenished SymphonyThe Weather ForecastThe Windae Cleaner’s GuideThe Wizard o the North

The Worry The Dream

This is the Hoose Jack Biggit

Twa Bairns

Victoria an Albert

VikingsWorld War 2

6. Katy the Crocodile………………….Thistle Reprographics 2004Bath-Room Bogle

Bus

Charity Shop

Charlie Cheetah

Dentist

Dinna be Roch

Dyeuk

Fitbaa

Foo Mony Hoolets?

Forkietailie

Giraffe

Guy Fawkes

Hedgehog

Hoolet

Katy the Crocodile

Leddylanners

Midgies

Missus Kingaroo’s Pooch

Mollochy Mowdie

Octopus

Robin Reidbreist

Sam Suzuki

Shoppies Mr Ted

Snailie (I)

Taxi Driver Doctor Postie

Teacher

The Bengal Tiger

The Cat’s Pyjamas

The Heilan Coo

The Robin Sang

The Slater

The Snaile (ii) (iii)

The Warlock

Towser the Tyke

Watchin TV

Wee Neep

Willie Wirm

7. The Toad on the Rock's Opinion Thistle Reprographics ..........2004 (Poems)

A Bito Embro Rough. A Real Doll.A Thing Worth Knowing. Airport Ambience. Anaesthesia. Buddha-WoodCaledonian Antisyzygy. Candleflame.Church Hall.Climbing Mortlich. December Song. Deer Skull.Deid an Alive. Easter. Eird Hoose.Epiphany.First off the MarkFloodFollowing Van Gogh’s Star.Furniture takes Stock. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Hannibal Lecter’s Alternative Xmas Dénner.Journeys (i) (ii)King Canute at the Gym. Last Portrait of George Mackay BrownListenersLittle Red Riding Hood’s Lovely Furry Suit.lntimate.Mandala o the Sizzens.Meditation on a Train. Midsimmer.Mormaer o Mar. New Year’s Resolution. November: Coastal Journey.Onslaught. Open Day, Waldorf School.Orange Slice in a Cocktail. Party Pieces.Proletariat of the Future.Red River, Red Sky. Spitfire Veg. Station.Statue.Still Life Movie.Stories (I)Stories (ii). Suicide Lady.The Anatomist. The Excommunicated Hand.The Gasman Cometh. The Hermit & the Raptor.

The SingerThe Song of the Corn. The Story in the Corner. The Toad on the Rock.The Whale in the Boatie. Theatre Visit. Train Journey.Two Couplet Persian Ghazal.What Summertime does best.

8. The Lan o Tea an Tigers Thistle Reprographics ......................... 2004 (Poems)A News wi a Parten. American Interlude.An Elephant’s Moo.At Gandhi’s Shrine

At Lord Siva’s Shrine. Bangkok MasseuseBear in a Thai ZooBurmese Coo.Castles in the Air. Elephant RideFarang. Flute Seller.Good Morning Black and Yellow Bird. Harvest-Time.Hornygollach.July in Arlington.Kam-Lai. Larks’ Tongues.LessonsMonsoon. No Passport Needed.OakOilman.Progress.Pool in a Hotel Complex. Ricki-Ticki-TaviSalamander.Shorthand Notes on Tall Buildings. Solo Flight. Steamed Rice. Supersonic. Taj MahalTaxi-Driver’s Buddha. Thai, Thai.The Colonel’s Widow Stating her OpinionThe Lan o Tea an TigersThe Lion and the Eagle. The Phillipino Fisherman.The River Kwai.The Watterbuffalo. Throw the Purdah o Calvin an HolyroodTrick or Treat. View from a Skyscraper.Wang-Kher. Yalla Dug.

9. The Tower o Babel Thistle Reprographics .. .................................2004 (Owersettins)A Byordnar Bonnie DreamA Sang. Myndin on GrandaAe NichtAybydan BraithCaunles.Dauchlin bi Wids in a Snawy GloaminDyewdrap. EencemairForge me on yer AnvilFruit Gathering.Gloamin. I like ma bodyIlkie DayIlkie Pikk o this YirdKrinioLangins. Mids o Life. Narcissus NabbitOor Faithers hid pouerfu Sangs. PairtinPtarmiganSang o the Open Road. Screivins.Short Buddhist Puja (F.W.B.O)Skins as Auld Testament.

Speirin fur Faith. Tae Tryst Ferlies Ooto their Queenly QuatenessThe Delight Song of Tsoai-TaleeThe Fairmer Spikks tae the ScholarThe Lochan. The Pictur. The Road I didna takkThe Sang o a Boozin CronieThe TounThe TummlerThe War o NervesThochts. Twal early Japanee Haiku xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

10. The Boddamer's Monkey Thistle Reprographics ........................2004 (Poems)A New Deer Ferm. A Sang o the Western Isles.Aikey Fair.Albert Terrace.Antigone.Back Eyn at Bennachie. Back Street.Balquidder Blackie’s perspective.Bog.Braemar Gaithenn. Bridge by a Housing Scheme. Brig o BalgownieCastle Fraser.Cruickshank Gardens, Dyke in a Clarty Airt.Eggs an Bacon.Evening, Dhanakosa, Baiquidder.Former CinemaFyvie Castle. Grampian Police H.Q.The Boddamers’ Monkey.House in Afileck Street. Housing Scheme Telecommunications Mast. Huntly.June bi the Cluny.Lament fur a Brither.Late Evenin, Loch Voile. Lecture on a Simmer Evening.Lilac Buss in a City Lane. Minimalist’s Guide tae the Dee. Nigg Bay.Old Aberdeen.Parking Squirrels.Pet Shop Fish. Rubislaw QuarrySalute tae a Bonnie Fechter. Salute tae Twa MakarsShrine Room in a Glen. Sidmooth at the Ploy. St Machar’s Gate, Evening, July. The Braes o Ballater.The Huntly Gaitherin. The Sidmouth FestivalThe Styx Rins Ben Baiquidder.The Ythan Pearl.Tyrebagger Earth House. Winter & Summer.Zoo Building.

11. The Humpty Dumpty Man Thistle Reprographics ......................2004 (Poems) ACROSS THE BRAID ATLANTIC

ADVICE TAE A HYTERERA FERRY O POEMS HAS DOCKED AT BLAIKIE’S QUAYA HINT O RAIN, KEITHAN EDEN SKYAPHRODITE’S ANKLEBITERARRIVINGA SCOTTISH CASHIER’S FANTASYAUTUMNBANGKOK GET-ABOUTSBARKING DOG HAIKUBATHROOM BOGLEBIRD IN A DARK ROOMBLAIK LICHTNLNBLIN ROBINBLUES-POEMCAN OF WORMSCEREBRAL BREECONJUGAL MANOEUVRESDADDYLANGLEGS

DENDONKEYDRAIGLIN SKIRTS GAUN BEN THE MUIREEN TWA THREEELEMENTARY MR HOLMESE-MAILS IN PURGATORYFAR THE HEATHER BRIERSFERRY TRIPFIRE(i)FIRE (ii)FLAGSFORGE ME ON YER ANVILGIGGIN WISHES WAR SHELT1ESGRIEFHAUF LICHTHORTICULTUREHUMPTY DUMPTYICE BREAKERIN TRANSITIT’S COMING YETKIDNEY BEAN CHILDLEOPARD AN LIONLETTERSMAN-SEEDMARKS AN SPENCERSMEASLES MEETING THE DEADLINEMETTAMIND POEMMITHER TONGUEMITTRA AT A BUS STOPMY WEE HARMONICAONGAUNS AT AUCHENSHEENON A ROLLPORTRAIT OF SELF AS A DEAD BAT

QUINE WI GUITARREID ADMIRALRIPROBINSALUTE TO THE REV. JOHN SKINNERSCOTTISH-ENGLISHSCOTCH MISSEDSEAGULLSSLEEP TICHT JUMBOSTALKERSTATION FLOWER BOXESSTORMY SPRINGTHE BIG ROUND MOONTHE BONNIE FITE HAIRED LOONTHE BOXTHE BURN’S MONOLOGUETHE FAIRMER SPIKKS TAE THE SCHOLAR

THE LADY OF THE LOCHTHE PASS-A-FISTTHE RAIN 1N TOONTHE WIDS SPIKK OOTTIME THE FILETINTTRYST WI A HEDGEHOGTRILOGIESTWA WISHESUNBORNVIEW FROM A SIX PANE WINDOWWARD-OFFWIDLAN SMACHRIEWINTRY SPELLWOLF-FUSSLE

37 Pandora's Box Thistle Reprographics ……………………………2004 (Poems)A Significant Moment.

A Small British Prayer. A Stair of Porcelain Roses.

An Incremental Poem.April, Abyne Braemar.

Bathime Ritual. Bed Hopper.

Bloody Piano.Chained Gate.Chanticleer.

City by the Grey North Sea.

Cold Snap.Croque Noir.

Donkey Easel.Fermyaird Claik. Fit the Pict Stane Said. Fragments of Sappho.Gloamin.Half-Hourly Observations in a Glen. Half-Hourly Observations, Casualty Dept. Horse in a Temple.Impermanence.In the Unit. Incommunicado.

Jaipur.Lake Wake.

Lochan in the Widded Glen. Lone WolfLove Bubble. Mairtinmas in BuchanMeeting the Otter.Moon Study.Never Stand Out from a Crowd.

On the Ethnic Cleansing of Vermin (Buddhist Style).

Pandora’s Box.

Persephone Sails off with Captain Bly.Pluscarden fae Heldon K.nowe.

Ritual.Rooster Rap.Round the Bend.

Rules. Sang o a Blue Siren.

Scottish Beach.

Scunnered Dug. Fifty Madonna.

Simmer’s Carousel.Skin. Snap Shot.Social Exclusion.St Machar’s Kirkyaird on a New Year’s Day. Strutting Cockerel.The Crucifixion of the Coquette.

The Piano. This Fine Spring Day.

Titanic Sinks, Aberdeen Man is Drowned.

Tramlines. Villanelle, the Sternless Derk. Visitors. Wids.

38 Gallery Prints Lochlands............................................................... 2004 (Poems)CHILD OF OUR TIMECLASSMATESDARNING DAYEVE REFLECTS AT THE FRUIT COUNTERFEEKIE DRINKERFITSTEPSFUSSLIN JOCKGEORDIE JAMIESONEGOOSE HERDGYM-SLIP GIRLMAN IN A SMOCKMIDSUMMERRESPONSIBILITYRESURRECTION THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACKTHE FLOODTHE HERRING FLEETTHE LANG ROAD HAMETHE QUEEN O SHEBATHE ROMANS BUIILDING MANCHESTERTHE TYPHOID SUMMERTHE WIDDA ANTOINETTETRAIN LANDSCAPEVIEW O AIBERDEENVILLAGE

39 Hairst o Thorns…………………….Lochlands…….2004 (Poems)A Birdy Day. A Casual Bean-stalkA Hairst o Thorns A Nor East Villanelle. A Royal NightingaleA Wee Kirk Prayer. At the Piper Alpha MemorialBallater BrigCrime Wave. Daith o a PetHairst o Thorns

Hamish MacSporran

Harriet the Hoolet. Haunfast.

Hello Kincorth. In a Japanese Garden.

Jacob’s LaidderLarick

Lipperty Lil. Luggin in at Khan’s

MacRobert’s ReplyMay-day. Meditation on the Shadow of a MoonMethuselah’s plate.

On a Haiflin’s SuicideOn my way to the River.

One in FourQuackers

Requiem for a Bird

Rikky Roe

Ritual.

RobinScurrieSide WardSomebody new.

SouvenirSpring Cleanin

Strange Letter. Tellin the Beads o Mornin, BalquidderThe Beelin ThoombThe Gift. Two by two

Ways of Approaching a Loch. Wish-list

40 Serendipity …Lochlands……………..2004 (Poems)

A Mercedes HubcapA Small Welsh HillA Song of Two IslandsA Warlock Visits the DoctorArabian NightsAside the LagoonAt the Bodhi TreeAt the HinnereynAt the Lion Rock, Sigiriya

Bird ManBoating on the LakeCheck PointChinaman’s KiteCock CrowColomboDark Night of the Hen

DogFaither an SonFeeding Frenzy

Fish on a TreeForget me notGweed Coonsel tae a FrienHead MassageIn the Botanical Gardens, Kandy

In the Shadow of Sri PadaIn the Tropics

Kandy at the Citadel Hotel

Love bubbleLullaby of the Birds

Major Rogers

Monkey KingMount LaviniaNo Man’s LandNorth Sea RigNuwara EliyaOf Quills and AngelsOn Safari

Overheard in the ZooPipe DreamPreparing to meet the BelovedRaja’s SongRapunzelSolitary BatherTea CeremonyThe Annunciation of the EggThe Bogles’ Ceilidh at Blethertoun KirkyairdThe Castlegate Unicorn SpeaksThe Ghaists o the Nor East NeukThe Green an Pleisunt LanThe Knotted TieThe Michie MachineThe Savage CeltThe Tea EstateTinkee the PorcupineTraffic incidentVisiting the OrphanageWaiting for a god to come alongWatterbuffaloWhat’s in your Handbag Honey?

Zoo

41 The Win an the Rain…Lochlands…….2005 (Poems)

A Scottish Soldier

A Visit to a Genuine Indian Home, Jaipur

A Wasted Life

Aberdeen gulls

Annie

Balquidder Christmas

Connor McGraw

Duthie Park

Fledgling

Ghaisties

It’s Cauld Oot I Blue Toon Hipsters

Kieran Christie Spikks tae the Social

Milk is Always White

Nest

On the Festive List

Pets’ Corner, Hazlehead

Sangs o Saa, Rain, Cauld

Security Breach

Singleton

Stars & Stripes

Story-time

Tae them wi nane, be gien

Tanka in the Trossachs

The Auld Alliance

The Birth of Death

The Lads

The Mortgaged Moggy

The Scrap Heap

The Shy poem

The Space Between Two Snowflakes

The Thief

The Wagtail & the Nightingale

The Wind & the Rain

Tsunami, Galle, Sn Lanka

Undergrowth

Wang-Pho Meditation Hall, Thailand

What the Cat Trailed in

When will the Rain Come?

Winter

Xmas Crackers

42 Death of a Pope….University of Aberdeen…2005 (Poems)

A Granite Welcome.Ae Meditation. An Eco-plea. April Daffodils. At the Lido.At the Spanish StepsAt the Zoo.Bennachie AD 84By AppyntmentCastlegate GullDeath of a PopeDusk at the Colosseum. Elegy for a Dead Admiral.Ghaists o Simmer Frocks.Granny’s Monthly veesit. TheBox.Lassie Dichtin her Feet.Lean Pickins. Deid LeidLegaciesMarilyn Munro’s Fur.More, Please. Multi-Cultural Scotland’s for me.Overlooking the CircusParis via the BrochQueen o the Toozlin Trade. Seeven Bairn Rhymes XXXXXXXSt Andrew’s Cathedral.Stanza 2005. Sunday at Sainsbury’s. The Bulb. The CryThe Familiar. The Famous Artist. The Fleein Scotsman.The Jewish Ghetto.Theatre Delivery. Tumbleweed. Twa Touns.

43 Serjeant Buchan’s Jacket……Lochlands ..2005 (Poems)A Falling Cow. A Long Stretch.

A Thoosan StepsAl Fresco Lunch.

At the Hinmaist Trump

Auld Steadins.

BirdBird on a Wire. Boots. Carousel

Carve Up.

Clootie Tree. Clowns.

Cutting the Mustard. Daffs.

Demon In the Greenhouse. Drifter.

Driftwood Inventory. Economic Migrants.

Faither an Dother Veesit the Sale Room.

Flight Commander Gabriel.

Fower GIlsks o a Glen.Fowl Matters Fridge.From Here to There. Fyvie Wids

Genetic Engineering. Ghetto Blaster. Gweedman’s CraftHammered. HolyroodHow to Preserve a LegendI’ve Forgotten.

Insurrection of Direct ObjectsIt’ll soon wash out. Jock Thamsan’s Balms

Keeper. Kittlins. Letting Go.

Luv-Sang. Madonna’s KnickersMan on a SwingMarchersMary had a Little Lamb. Miracles in Fife.

MoonscapeMr And Mrs Blackbird Visit the Neighbours.

Muckle Whale, Blue Kirk

On a Scottish Beach

Pearls

Poet’s Picnic. Resting Tubas. RoundaboutSae Wild, Sae Weet. Scoops.

Scotland fae a Flee’s Rlcht EeSergeant Buchan’s JacketSix Things I ken.

Snake’s Alive.

Somethin’s Fishy.

Stltch Up. Tars.

The Boaties’ Lullaby. The Day I adopted a Balloon.

The Dreams’ Convention.

The Dwaumin Street.

The Makker’s Smit.

The MeditatorThe Muckle Bear

The Realignment of Mrs Jones’ NipplesThe Sale of the Cultural IconsThe Scythe SpeaksThe Tom Cat

The Wolf and the Lamb.

The Wynd.

Three Brass Monkeys

Three Sisters.

Three TrioletsTorpedo Rolls.

Trump Card. Two Telegrams

WaitingWhy? Willy Fernandez RIPWork Wife.

44 Ferlies……………………….Lochlands…2005 (Poems)A MINIMALIST POEM

A SCOTTISH INTERACTIVE CHANT

ABERNETHY MCCRONE

AND PIGS CAN FLY

ATLANTIS IN THE BURN

AUGUST, BRIG O DEE

AUTUMN MOVER

AUTUMN PADDOCK

BEDSIT

BIRTHDAY

BOGLE BOWF

BUZZARD

CAHOOTCHIE QUINE

CARROTS

CHINA

CLUN VILLAGE

CRAIGENDARROCH

CREWE

END OF STORY

EUROTRASH

FAR OWER THE FORTH

FERLIES

GANGRELS

GLOBAL CITY

GRAVE GOODS

HORSE IN THE RAIN

HOSPITAL ENTRANCE

HOUDINI

HUMPBACK WHALES

IN THE NEWS AGAIN

JANNIE

JESS THE SHEEP

KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE

KELPIE CLYPE

KNOTS

LAST STAND

LESS THAN A LEAF

LONELY BARK COLUMN

MAP

MITHERLESS

MOLLOCHY MOWDIE

MOVING ON

OCTOBER

ONCE UPON A TIME

PC FARRABOOTER

SACRIFICE

SAMANTHA SOOK

SAMHUIN

SAMHUIN(2)

SCOTTY

SEGGS

SEINE

SEPTEMBER BEACH

SHEEP IN AN ENGLISH FIELD

SPECIAL UNIT

SQUIRREL

ST NICHOLAS KIRKYAIRD

TAE MAKK A MARTYR

TELLING THE BEES

THE ABSTRACT POEM SPEAKS

THE HURST

THE LODGER

THE LONG COMPANY

THE MOOCH

THE SEAL

THE SNAILS’ TRAIL

THE TOWERS O SILENCE

THE TRAIVELLERS

TREE NO 02363

WELSH PONY STUDY (1

WELSH PONY STUDY (2)

45 The Tiger o Trincomalee……..malfranteaux concepts…2006 (Poems)Ancient ASBOsBaimie JesusBlythe YuleChristmasDental CrisisDragonsDyeukKeekm GlaissMerrymatanzieMidnichtMistletoeMuhammadNativityNorth East TounPercy Puddock Santa’s Comm Doon the LumShine on the Warld ye LueSpeecial KsTaedsteelTattiebogle on the BraeThe Childe o HaleThe Fairy PiperThe Fiddle was not a SuccessThe Gorilla fae RwandaThe Hindu QuineThe Quaet KindThe Robin SangThe Tiger o TrincomaleeThree KingsVegan’s Anatomy Lesson

1. The Owl Hour………………....malfranteaux concepts…2006 (Poems) 46 A Buchan Ferm greets Spring A Melting Baby A Valentine to Marcus AureliusAfrica, AfricaAn gin yer ee gars ye hyter, powk it oot!At the Owl HourBlueBollywood Film BraifTounCanopic Jars ClockConversation with a Slug

Epic Fower Bairn Rhymes frae Sherwid ForestGreen Wooden Door In the Psychiatric WardMinnie BruceMy Uncle’s CowsNetPictur o the Artist as an abominable snaaman Plane CrashPoem in a MousetrapSculpture in GraniteSilence in the Meditation HallTell LeesThe Dauncin PiperThe Little Nut Tree The Raj through Rose Tinted GlassesThe Road I Didna TakkThe TravellersThe Unicorn The Weeds’ Manifesto Three Classmates

1. Past Masters……………………Lochlands…2006 (Poems)An Old MasterFragile PassengersFreedom o SpeechI open ma poemJacob’s ladderJourney tae KeithMeenits! Oors!Merriage SangRainy DayStarry Nicht BalquidderThe Asian DogThe BrigThe ChameleonThe Chess BoardThe Fiddler’s WifeThe Happy UnicornThe Queen o ShebaThe Runaway WeddingThe Ship of FoolsThe SwimmerVetruvian Man

2. The Sea Quine…………………malfranteaux 2006 PoemsA Pussycat’s Knickers. A Walk in the Desert. Aiberdeen: A Tale o Twa Touns.Anna. At the Ebb.Barking Dog. Boaties. Callum and Greta. Craiturs.Crivie Gull. Dan in Milan. Didgeridoo. Falling.Femme Fatale. Flamenco Dancer.Global Meat. Gull, Skirlin.The Refugees.Kitten & Pigeon.

Loomweight.Measured Steps.Mummy’s Boy.Nostalgia.Obituary of the Amazons.Pathway.Pigeons and Girl. Pilgrim Fathers.Pros-op-agnosia.Roses in Rain. Sea Quine. Seen at the Dali Museum, Barcelona.Snap Shots o Easter, BarcelonaSpanish Cuddies. Speaking of Spain.Stitch up.The Bagpipe Player.The Bathers. The Bums Competition.The Campus Cat. The Chair. The First Days of AutumnThe Five Senses. The Fower Friaries o Aiberdeen.The Green Towel.The Hobbyhorse. The Nine Burns o the toun. The Silkie Hunter. The Slug.The Souter’s LoonThe TV OlympicThe Waltzer.Tree Circle. Triple Hairst. Weather. Wed-lockWee Beach Hooses. Wild Introductions.

3. The Heavenly Cow of Thebes……Lochlands …2006 (Poems) Agha Khan High Dam

At the Nubian Village

At the Temple of KarnakAt PhilaeCleopatraFelucca RideFlashback Hymn to Hathor

Luxor MuseumMarket iMarket ii

On the NileOzymandias Revisited Queen HatshepsutSleeping BeautyThe Crocodile God

The Local Situation The Swimmer The Time Traiveller’s Convention Touchin Doon

A Letter to Julius Caesar from the Provinces

An Average Day Brueghel & Ham Bus JourneyChez Nous Ellen KnightFresh Fish Cakes Illegal Native Journey to the BrochLost PropertyMay North East Toun On Making a List PintoQueen Wasp Rain MandalaSchool JourneySix Owersetts frae Neruda xxxxxxxxxStitch UpTanka i Tanka ii Temporary Warmth Tempus Fugit iTempus Fugit ii The DigThe House MartinsThe Loveliness of TreesThe March PastThe Person from PorlockThe PulleyThe Rug The Yellow TimeThis Night shall thy Soul be required of Thee Thomas Blake GloverTrain, passing Montrose

4. The Likeable Ordeal…..................Severin Books…..2006 (Poems)A Pairty fur Ane-Zoya-A Tale of 12 Cities-At the Festival- At the Moulin Rouge- BackpackerBrukken Shell-Cat Calypso-Dinner on the SeineElmet: for Ted HughesFoo tae makk a PoemFower Signs o SamhuinFutteret Great Britain Hebden Bridge-In Memory of Sylvia Plath HughesJapanese InterludeKing Canute-Mrs Attila the HunNew Orleans- On Buying a Pet- Pillow Talk with MussoliniSalute tae Donside-Scotched-Fit’s Life-September, Brig o DeeSetterday Nicht –Sin Eater-Sketches frae a Fremmit AirtStrukken-Sunset from a Plane-Sunset Sang – SwamiTed Hughes the CatThe American Bun The Dragon’s ScaleThe Ee o Ra-The Ferm-

The First Days of Spring The Intended-Late The Islets of Langerhans-The Lesser Spottit Taed-The Likeable Ordeal-Portrait with Tarot CardsThe Lumb Bank Worker- The Plunderers-The Sestina Poem- The Shodo ArtistThe Spik o the Lan –The Taxi Driver-The Thom Buss- The Travellers- The Unnertakker’s UtopiaValentine- (BELATED)Wickerman