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Postcards
from Scotland

We asked a selection of SR
contributors for a memory
of an outstanding holiday in
Scotland – good or bad


Marian Pallister in Tobermory
George Chalmers in Ayr
Islay McLeod in Rockcliffe
Judith Jaafar in Carrick Castle
Barney MacFarlane on Arran


Bill Jamieson on Bute
Tessa Ransford in North Berwick
Michael Elcock on Harris
Ronnie Smith in Largs

Katie Grant on Mull
Thom Cross in Kirkcaldy
Morelle Smith in Glencoe
Bob Cant in Carnoustie

Robin Downie on Arran
Bruce Gardner in Glen Livet
Fiona MacDonald on Tiree
Walter Humes at home

Jill Stephenson at Loch Duich
Quintin Jardine in Elie
Iain Macmillan in Gleneagles
Douglas Marr on Skye
Andrew McFadyen in Kilmarnock

R D Kernohan on Arran
David Torrance on Iona
Catherine Czerkawska at Loch Ken
Chris Holligan in Elie

Rose Galt in Girvan
Alex Wood on Arran
Andrew Hook in Glasgow
Alasdair McKillop in St Andrews

Sheila Hetherington on Arran
Anthony Seaton on Ben Nevis
Paul Cockburn at Loch Ness
Jackie Kemp in a taxi
Angus Skinner on Skye

July 2012
No. 568

The Scottish Review is on its annual summer break and will resume publication on Tuesday 24 July

33333I nearly kent
my faither
A poignant memoir by Jim Fiddes

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Celebrate
Places Seldom Mentioned

A love poem for the summer by
Gerard Rochford

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Holiday memories
are made
of this...

A celebration in photographs by
Islay McLeod

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The most memorable
holiday in Scotland
that I never had

The glories of the
hydro hotels by
Kenneth Roy

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A Scottish holiday
Drawing by SR's resident cartoonist, the one
and only
Bob Smith

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Celebrate

Places Seldom

Mentioned

 

Gerard Rochford's July poem

 

My tongue barely detects your lashes;
I tease your ear-lobes with finger and thumb,

blink a butterfly-kiss on your cheek.
Who taught me that? My big sister.

The crook of your arms and knees,
a bend at your wrist – neatly my lips rest there.

I circle your tummy button,
soft curlicue seal of birth.

Mouth-perfect a hollow above the base of your spine.
I tweak your toes – ten delights with laughter,

then stroke along and below those feet
which touch the earth we share.

Hand-in-hand we walk our days,
savouring the gifts of night.

 

Gerard lives in Aberdeen. He is the Scottish Review's Makar and contributes a poem each month. Publications include: 'Failing Light' – Embers Handpress and 'Of Love and Water' – Koo Press/Malfranteaux Concepts