Tuesday, January 27, 2009

News at Eleven: 1. Sorley Maclean, Hallaig

This is a dark, difficult painful poem, appropriately enough since it is about the Clearances in the Highlands.

. . . I will go down to Hallaig,
to the sabbath of the dead,

from The Times: The Top 10 'other' Scottish Poems

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