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Tuesday 14 August 2012

41/100 ‘the execution on the hillsides’


One day all flags and songs, the next
Black with guns, loudspeakers, lamentation,
And men scattered to the caves and the bitter shores.
Then trial and sentence and the execution on the hillside

[from ‘A landlady in Emmaus’, George Mackay Brown Following a lark]

5 comments:

  1. I've got to track down a copy of this guy's poems.

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  2. Amazon have his 'Collected poems 1954-1992' for 12p + £2.80 p&p which is a good introduction, others are mostly out of print or collectors items; the newer Complete (which I don't have) £16.

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    1. Hm - not any more they haven't. At least, I can't find it.
      I'll keep an eye out. I really should be looking for Welsh stuff because we're off to Anglesey in a couple of weeks.

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    2. Check out
      http://www.amazon.co.uk/Selected-Poems-1954-92-George-Mackay/dp/0719556244/ref=pd_rhf_pe_p_t_1

      There's a few there at 11p or 12p

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    3. Thank you! That's ordered then. No idea why it didn't show me those. The cheapest it offered was £5.99!

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