Great Regulars: John Manson writes in Scots and English,

and is one of the contributors to a vibrant new anthology of contemporary Scots and Gaelic poems from Dumfries and Galloway, Chuckies fir the Cairn. His translations into Scots have a distinctively clean, sparse eloquence which particularly suits this poem of loss.

San Martino Del Carso frae the Italian o Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970)

from The Scotsman: Poem of the Week: John Manson

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