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me, botanic gardens, edinburgh

me, botanic gardens, edinburgh

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sighthill short story

sighthill short story

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"I gulp down winter raw. The heady
Darkness swirls with tenements.
In a brown fuzz of cottonwool
Lamps fade up crags, die into pits."

— from November night, Edinburgh, The Sinai Sort (1957), by Norman MacCaig

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shot in the dark by ian ingoldsby

shot in the dark by ian ingoldsby

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"Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream"

Hugh MacDiarmid, The Complete Poems, 1978