.

Kenneth Roy

The expert view is wrong.
These deaths could
have been prevented

Bob Cant

What does
'Tutti Frutti'
say to us now?


6

John Cameron

The great 'Chariots
of Fire' was the
purest hokum
4

7

Andrew Hook

Down with
everything: the new
American mantra
5

7

Ronnie Smith

Tanned and smiling,
Mr Blair arrives
among us
5

7

Islay McLeod

Villages of
Scotland:
(3) Thornhill
5

07.02.12
No. 510

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Islay's Scotland

 

Drymen, Stirlingshire, a year ago this week





Snow

 

Gerard Rochford's February poem

 

Snow…

…falls as itself and as itself it lies,
covering the seasons of my age,
the lost loves and the true loves
deep in time.

And every singular flake contains
the infinite creativity of its god.

How frail this mirror held to vanity,
telling me nothing I don't already know,
the insignificance of a life at ebb,
those drifted years…


Gerard lives in Aberdeen. He is the Scottish Review's Makar and contributes a poem each month. Publications include: 'Failing Light' and 'Of Love
and Water'