tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46551767169393205292024-03-19T15:57:55.146-07:00 Donald Adamson Poetry BlogDonald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-62648085136413377992023-12-20T12:11:00.000-08:002024-03-06T00:06:26.607-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQuY_bO8C8hNTlg_EnGKvRPQMsD1BPRajrLZaZgiuZ81YMOFCYaPTLVBevyA70GqJS_YXFYmc-vObi1IpSX96Q0n-kcJeegAtOWBHuWZ6T-fNfL1tXAw6sHHPkNAGkPSoh6eY7PInKgBFp7vVqgk-pAawLs_0MbRFkUBX_3rQofYlQ0dereTruXoYJghs/s2164/A%20Beatin%20Heert%204%20pic%20collage.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="2164" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQuY_bO8C8hNTlg_EnGKvRPQMsD1BPRajrLZaZgiuZ81YMOFCYaPTLVBevyA70GqJS_YXFYmc-vObi1IpSX96Q0n-kcJeegAtOWBHuWZ6T-fNfL1tXAw6sHHPkNAGkPSoh6eY7PInKgBFp7vVqgk-pAawLs_0MbRFkUBX_3rQofYlQ0dereTruXoYJghs/w502-h365/A%20Beatin%20Heert%204%20pic%20collage.png" width="502" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Now available: 'A Beatin Hert' - poems and photos from Rheged by myself (poet and editor), Derek Ross (poet and photographer), Douglas Lipton (poet). </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fantastic photos from Derek, and our poems are pretty good also. </span></span><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">if you'd like a copy, email me: donaldsolwaypoet [at] hotmail.com</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-62013553277775389762021-06-04T23:03:00.000-07:002021-06-04T23:03:16.694-07:00<div style="line-height: 120%; text-align: left;"> [This was in the latest edition of Scottish PEN's online magazine: PENning 'Renewals'.]</div><div style="line-height: 120%; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 120%; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Hert-Kinnlin<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">She'd hud the wean <i>had, child</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">an she pit a photie o
him new born<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">on the social media<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">fur aa tae admire – <i>all</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">an aabody was
commentin like <i>everybody</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">He's gorgeous!<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">But here's me in the
back-en o ma life <i>autumn</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">an weans clene oot o
ma mind<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">didnae see ocht in
him then <i> anything</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">but a pink blob like
caunle wax – <i>candle</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">naethin much in yon
wee thing avaa. <i>at all</i><br /> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Six month later<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">an he’s on ma shouder <i>shoulder</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">makin vroom-vroom
souns at caurs as they pass, <i>cars</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">nine month later<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">an he's croodlin,
singin,<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">a year later<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">an he's sprauchlin wi
airms ootstrecht for a hug. <i>moving unsteadily</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">An A wis wrang. Yon
wisnae caunle wax <i>wrong</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">but leevin mairble<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">an the muckle
sculptor o the universe <i>mighty</i><br /> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">hud a haun in him
frae the stert <i>hand</i><br /> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">or even afore,<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">cairvin oot a human
craitur <i>carving, creature</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">utterly himsel <i>himself</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">an hert-kinnlin
gorgeous richt eneuch. <i>heart-kindling, enough</i></span></div><div style="line-height: 120%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="line-height: 120%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-87308026967010978502021-03-06T22:19:00.003-08:002021-03-06T22:24:27.945-08:00The Inheritance<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">Family legend has it that my great-great-grandfather built a mill on this wee burn (photo below) at at Dornock, near Gretna, in 1826, then ran off (to England?) leaving my great-great-grandmother with child. The poem is an editor’s choice in the Hammond House ‘Survival’ competition </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="http://hammondhousepublishing.com/?fbclid=IwAR17vJxXxSvY86FzLZuVt_c86Af9KUiCkpqHT3AtHdTt0fqynXgsk2aEzoQ" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">hammondhousepublishing.com</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">John A – my forebear,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">name-giver, border-crosser</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">and promise-breaker who abandoned</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">my great-great-grandmother</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">and the bastard bairn he gave her –</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">a fellow of craft it seems</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">more than virtue. In the records he’s</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">a millwright. What is it about mills</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">and wanderlust? – I’ll have that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">and a few other odds and ends</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">worth keeping: thrumming wheel-music,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">metre in the slap-slap-slap of paddles,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">rhythmic and percussive, down and up,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">passion in the gush and leap</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">of water from the millrace. And maybe</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">satisfaction of a job well done</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">and a last look-back</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">to comprehend every part working</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">as it should. With money sitting snug</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">and proudly in his pocket. Moving on.</span><br /> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZoUPNmSk9qpSoL-GzhmQ9MD7Epy3ZGEsMXXy-_LJ4Zye3yl4G9h88cshZ3lSgd3oS7ttJNo0pvYQYMJ1Kj1D7TvcXVXlpa3EUo4yjNnyikjxYNtEfF3tmiz18-ZBaCTevSIKniUB-Og/s789/Dornock+Burn.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="789" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZoUPNmSk9qpSoL-GzhmQ9MD7Epy3ZGEsMXXy-_LJ4Zye3yl4G9h88cshZ3lSgd3oS7ttJNo0pvYQYMJ1Kj1D7TvcXVXlpa3EUo4yjNnyikjxYNtEfF3tmiz18-ZBaCTevSIKniUB-Og/w399-h359/Dornock+Burn.JPG" width="399" /></a></div><p></p>Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-72591086448826342872021-02-28T02:40:00.009-08:002021-02-28T07:26:53.279-08:00Shakespeare in Tuonela: towards a translation of Eeva-Liisa Manner’s 'Ofelia'<h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2><div style="text-align: left;">This year is the centenary year of Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921-1995). Having spent her childhood in Viipuri, she lived most of her adult life in Tampere, and is now considered one of Finland’s most distinguished 20th century poets. In the Finnish-British context it is interesting to look at a poem in which Manner drew inspiration from an English play, namely Shakespeare’s <i>Hamlet</i>. In the play it is reported that Ophelia died after falling from a tree overlooking a brook. She aimed to hang garlands of flowers on the branches, but a branch broke. She fell into the water, together with her flowers, and was drowned, making no effort to save herself, and singing all the while. The play contains suggestions that her death was self-willed.</div><div><br />Eeva-Liisa Manner’s ‘Ofelia’[1] (1949, from the collection <i>Kuin tuuli tai pilvi</i>) transforms the Ophelia episode in a marvellous way. The ‘brook’ becomes something deeper, darker and more universal, like a sea separating the living from Tuonela, the land of the dead. Moreover, the verses seem to transform the original Shakespeare into a kind of shaman, one with power to understand the language of animals such as – in this poem – birds and fish. They too are dead, and speak with the tongues of the dead.</div><div><br />Here, as a fanciful aside, I’d speculate that Shakespeare might have been thoroughly at home with the world of the Kalevala, had he come across it. After all, he includes the shamanic figure of Prospero in <i>The Tempest</i>, and incorporates the witch-haunted moors of Scotland into <i>Macbeth</i>[2].</div><div><br />Manner’s ‘Ofelia’ is quite long, but a flavour of it can be had from the extract below, which comes at the end of the poem. To add another layer of magic I chose, as a Scot, to translate the poem into Scots[3] – perhaps infused by the Scottish shamanic spirit of Thomas the Rhymer (seer, rune-sayer) who was given a ‘tongue that can never lie’ and taken to elf-land, a realm beyond heaven or hell, or good and evil. This seems appropriate for the vision of a poet in any century, and Manner’s characterisation of Ophelia’s entry to Tuonela seems to fit this notion very well.</div><div><br />Below you can read the end of the translated poem. There two voices, first of all the shamanic voice of the ‘dead bird’, lulling Ophelia to sleep in the water, to find peace, to be relieved of the burden of life. The final voice is that of Ophelia herself, describing how the daylight, the wind and the sky all fade away. On a literal level the event is tragic, but on the level of emotion it is soothing, like a lullaby[4], and in my opinion extraordinarily beautiful.</div><div><br />Sleep, be done wi dreary days, <br />sleep amang the lily blooms,<br />whaur the watter rocks the flooer – <i> where the water</i><br />watter watchin ower the deid, <i> over the dead</i><br />ower the drooned that lig asleep. <i> lie</i><br />Lat the watter cradle ye, <i> let</i><br />tak awaa yir dreary days, <i> take away</i><br />ease yir burden, cairry it faur.<i> carry it far</i><br />Freendly are the fathoms deep,<br />blessèd the forfochen yins. <i> weary ones</i><br />Lig doon on the watter’s lap,<br />in the cradle o the waves.</div><div><br /><i>Sleep, sleep ...</i><br /><i>Seelence. silence</i><br /><i>Quate A gang, aye doun and faurer doun, quiet I go, always down, further</i><br /><i>wi ma gealt haunds cairryin the bloom frozen hands</i><br /><i>o the day as it mirkens darkens</i><br /><i>till aathing swees and sinks intae the watter everything sways</i><br /><i>as the wind saftens softens</i><br /><i>and the lift dwynes awaa. sky fades</i><br /><br /></div><div><i>Notes.</i><br />1. I’m grateful to Nely Keinanen of Helsinki University for drawing my attention to the poem.<br />2. The chants of the witches in Macbeth are rare instances of the trochaic ‘Kalevala meter’ in Shakespeare’s plays. <br />3. My translation won an award in the 2018 Scots Language Society Competition for translation into Scots. I’d point out that the translation is fairly free, focusing on sound and rhythm rather than word-for-word exactitude of meaning.<br />4. There are echoes of Aleksis Kivi’s famous lines here: <i>Tuonen lehto, öinen lehto! / Siell’ on hieno hietakehto, / sinnepä lapseni saatan. [Grove of Tuoni, grove of night / There is a fine cradle of sand / There I shall escort my child]</i></div><p><br /></p><p> </p>Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-35626721964177221582021-01-01T02:11:00.005-08:002021-01-01T23:31:08.140-08:001ST JANUARY<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">After the fireworks, fizz and zoom</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">the year wakes up</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">with a new head, arms, legs</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">and wings and wonders –</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">What kind of butterfly am I?</span></p>Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-55569751858194661252020-10-05T06:41:00.003-07:002020-10-05T06:42:24.809-07:00Dreich magazine<p> A couple of poems in 'Dreich' # 8. Thanks to editor Jack Caradoc and to Chrys Salt for pointing me in the Dreich direction!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1177" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNHgcLac-NIHdBYcI2S6zLGszQ_0D1kDBKbMwhQgKMK5GWR68Q5LPjo8smyMPLMZHkAzXyHHrHsL7Km8v55WXb0YQkpgoI9rlI3bItgwWPv2Dgoh3-NLYtu0j1OJYNrYz9w3WBNHXL-jQ/w230-h400/photo+of+the+sun+%252B+cover.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="230" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXgCdSZEJF2gSh4Ob_lX_UdO8Aq3PtHddr6HVdCnzrL-lQ4EfSo00kWUMg-xns6yS4j80znw2yxar_InugwEedbk0h-pqYyz0zrfXndf7-1RZwl-G6cQUriTBUQcCryeWxA1r-o9pk8gU/s2048/tresbon+compris.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXgCdSZEJF2gSh4Ob_lX_UdO8Aq3PtHddr6HVdCnzrL-lQ4EfSo00kWUMg-xns6yS4j80znw2yxar_InugwEedbk0h-pqYyz0zrfXndf7-1RZwl-G6cQUriTBUQcCryeWxA1r-o9pk8gU/w293-h400/tresbon+compris.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p>Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-80697753779071616682020-10-04T06:39:00.006-07:002020-10-04T06:53:56.354-07:00A Lang Wait<p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My poem ‘A Lang Wait’ was published recently in Scottish PEN online journal (theme ‘Patience’). Here’s me reading it, in Scots with English subtitles.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGyhXIBmSnSDKWwULq-c4QyTstrMiJjIpZRRLTvrxPSxDMzW-AaRapLxNzMcy4fww5OOz9Wb5y_91z6eodpnTfILQtyqj-OsPDRah9mZ6W3oNmOr8qXynDMqX0z8L_HQijKiWmP7Rro70/s946/A+Lang+Wait+pic.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGyhXIBmSnSDKWwULq-c4QyTstrMiJjIpZRRLTvrxPSxDMzW-AaRapLxNzMcy4fww5OOz9Wb5y_91z6eodpnTfILQtyqj-OsPDRah9mZ6W3oNmOr8qXynDMqX0z8L_HQijKiWmP7Rro70/s320/A+Lang+Wait+pic.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMerrImhBU&t=1s&fbclid=IwAR0k7kn-QRmyXRO2-ovuXZQ7Xo2WaYjC0L9O2u9gPMILWxIbGC36dSjqMOM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMerrImhBU&t=1s&fbclid=IwAR0k7kn-QRmyXRO2-ovuXZQ7Xo2WaYjC0L9O2u9gPMILWxIbGC36dSjqMOM</a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here's the original Scots version:</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%;">A Lang Wait</span></b></p><div style="line-height: 120%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ye micht wait lang<br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">afore fowk – yon's you and me and aa – <br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%;">
arenae gowkit – </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%;"> – bi thaim as promise jam the morn<br />
(a tax brek, a pun or twae mair pension, oor country's glorious futur)<br />
– bi thaim as gie us an enemy tae turn
oor hate upon<br />
(immigraunts and furriners, Jews, Muslims, aye, and a wee war warks wunners)<br />
– bi breid and circuses<br />
(think Meghan and Harry, onie celeb ye can nem)<br />
– bi thaim as awns the media and gie oot
fake news for thir ain fell purposes<br />
(the heidlines ony day o the week)<br />
– bi thaim as haes maistered and refined
the cantrips o kings, emperors, warlords and high-heid-yins sin the beginnin o
time.<br />
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Ye micht wait lang. But keep the faith<br />
for things will chynge for the better – <br />
the lees will be seen throu<br />
and the truth come oot suiner or later.<br />
It's happent afore, it’ll suirly happen again.<br />
It's a lang road – yit wi howp<br />
and mair nor howp – gin ye speik oot<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%;">for thaim as cannae speik oot and for thaim<br />
whase vyce is owherwhaulmt<br />
bi the warld’s stramash and scurry-whirry<br />
stour will flee frae the een. Dinnae gie up.<br />
In daurk days aye haud forrit, haud on. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-87376701569042156102020-08-04T02:52:00.003-07:002020-08-04T02:57:31.087-07:00The Tellin O't - Scots and English parallel<br />
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<br />Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-59134927289613578842020-08-02T22:41:00.001-07:002020-10-04T06:54:49.819-07:00The Welcome - Scots and English<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This was in the latest edition of Lallans magazine (July 2020). English translation on the left.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Welcome</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">‘Pappa’
she yells,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">running
up to me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">jumping
up and down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">as
I enter the house:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
wee lass, my granddaughter,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">not
yet three years old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but
marvellously human<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">with
a character all her own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s
been a while<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">since
any other creature on this earth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">showed
such joy at my presence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
I should learn from her <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
let folk matter to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
way she does,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
be loving, and to show it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Show
it to my poems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">as
well: I’m glad to see you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m
sure they will answer,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
ones I’ve fathered, mothered:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">verses
jumping up and down,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">holding
their arms out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "gill sans mt" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">when
I ring the bell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-39849439313262543032016-05-01T00:04:00.000-07:002016-05-01T00:04:07.365-07:00<div class="Pa3">
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;">This was included in the recent Scottish PEN 'PENning Peril' issue. For full magazine click on </span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">https://issuu.com/scottishpen/docs/penning_april_2016</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">FUNNY STORIES <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">Naa, ma wee lamb, naa,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">yir mammy wisnae screamin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">she wis lauchin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">at the funny story <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">the men telt her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">It wis that funny <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">she hud tae lauch and lauch <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">till the tears cam tae her een <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">and the men tuik her awaa <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">for mair stories. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">We’re
aa gaan,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">you and me and the neebors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">but no yir daddy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">he hus tae byde ahin.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">It’ll be a lang journey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">traivellin throu the nicht.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">In the morn ye’ll see the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">Snuggle
doon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">lay yir heid on ma knee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">and Ah’ll sing tae ye.<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-22963110928041260802016-03-25T03:33:00.000-07:002016-03-25T03:33:38.960-07:00Message received from Winning Writers:<br />
Congratulations! It is my pleasure to tell you that you won an Honorable Mention in the 2015 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest.<br />
We will officially announce your award on April 15. In April you will receive $100 and an award certificate.<br />
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<b>Proper and Enduring</b><br />
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Yes, art cares<br />
about the dead and the despairing and the exiled<br />
but not too much: like the elephant mother<br />
that nuzzles the corpse of her calf then rejoins the herd<br />
or the weeds that sprout in radioactive deserts,<br />
or the creatures that crawl among the skeletons of the mighty<br />
after an asteroid has struck the earth.<br />
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Art waited patiently<br />
as bodies lay lifeless on the slave ships<br />
and were thrown into the sea.<br />
It entered into the groans that declared 'I am'<br />
and were joined note to note, the cadences<br />
made and remade, chanted in the cotton fields<br />
and sung as the blues (that strange, unimaginable fruit).<br />
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Art seeks to survive<br />
and even now in the camps and the killing places<br />
the thoughts are starting to gather<br />
and the sounds, and the shapes imprinted on the eye,<br />
the atoms of sympathy floating in the smoke<br />
that will change into words, tales, pictures, songs,<br />
representations: 'Thus it is' and 'It was so.'<br />
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Art nurtures itself, gaining strength<br />
to even up the score:<br />
finds in itself the hate, the force, the fury<br />
to pronounce accusations, proper and enduring,<br />
against the bastards of the earth:<br />
to call them by their names<br />
and give them no peace in history.Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-38773576955925522132016-02-04T22:31:00.000-08:002016-02-04T22:34:40.521-08:00<h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the poem itself:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A GOOD DROWNING<br />
<i>(By the River Aniene, June 2015)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It calls you in,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">bottleglass green and cool in
summer heat,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">but the current’s too strong:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">before you know, you’d be floating
unhurriedly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">into the Tiber, forty miles
downstream. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Not such a bad way to drown,
taking it easy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">having everything you’ve experienced<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">click through your head like a
slow movie reel. With time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">for sight-seeing – think – those
twenty-seven centuries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">from the founding of the city,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">the emperors and the excesses,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">popes, palaces and pleasure-gardens,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">amphitheatres and aqueducts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">temples and trumphs, legions,
lingua Latina…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">so much more than one’s own meagre
existence,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">a hundred generations roughly
speaking,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">surely enough to fit a
million lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It seems almost a pity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">to miss that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I think I’ll dip my toe in
now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-3072205725001410212016-01-25T09:36:00.000-08:002016-01-25T09:36:53.259-08:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -1.0cm;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This one seems appropriate for Burns Night -</span></div>
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Inventors <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Symington's pioneer steamboat, financed by the landowner, Patrick Miller,
sailed on Dalswinton Loch in 1788. Robert Burns (d. 1796) is said to have
been a passenger.) <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Burns replies, ‘And we bards <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">as a maid in her passion.’ They laugh. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here's the front and back cover of my new collection, just published by Indigo Dreams, and available on order. To quote the blurb: </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"With Scotland as a background, these poems celebrate diversity. Using both English and Scots, they embrace the ‘glamourie’ – enchantment – to be found in ordinary lives and in poetry. They end with wild bagpipe-led devilry, reminiscent of Robert Burns’s Tam o’Shanter, and an urgent plea for tolerance."</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's a poem from the collection. Some of you will have seen the monument. 'Ordinary' people, doing their jobs.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the Beef Tub Road</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Crossing from Tweedsmuir to Moffat</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the sun's slanting rays</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">light the first October snow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">like wrinkles on the hill's face</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">or an orthography</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of lost language, words of the scattered clans</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">who first wandered through these Lowland hills</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and gave them names.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today the wind is warm enough</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to obliterate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">what will be lost, written, lost again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">when the real winter snow blankets it out</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like a tribe submerged, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">falling like a wave against the shore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of centuries, then gone, asborbed </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">among the later ones – my ancestors –</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">shepherds, drovers, labourers, miners, masons, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">honest folk and thieves: provincial Scots</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">going the rounds of market, pub and kirk,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">people of little note.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yet as the road winds higher</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and nearer that calligraphy of snow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I see where the two Moffat coachmen,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">James McGeorge and John Goodfellow,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">six miles out from Moffat, with their coach</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">deep in a snowdrift, carried the mail</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on their backs until they had to lie</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">under that white blanket on the hill.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's the Beeftub: brown fields below,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a misty sheet over Moffat town,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">zig-zag strokes of a burn as sleet showers </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">dissolve to rain.</span><br />
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<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;">my first day in
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Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-80856399217295269952014-11-06T03:29:00.001-08:002014-11-06T07:37:11.189-08:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I rarely write prose, but this was in 'Fankle', a Scottish poetry and prose sheet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">A Fable for a Late Hour</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>It
happened in the bloom of my youth, that as I made my way </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>through
a forest the path became overgrown and I could not </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>go on.
Then there was one who came from a shady grove, a </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>lovely
woman in a white garment, and I was dazzled by the </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>brightness
of it. Yet though she was beautiful she had a </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>white
bandage round her forehead. And her laugh tinkled </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>through
the forest and she said ‘I will show you the way.’ </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>And I
said ‘How can you show me the way since your eyes are </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>covered
with a bandage?’ and she only laughed the louder </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>and her
laugh rippled and trilled and echoed among the </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>trees
and the rocks. And she took my hand and said only </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>‘Come’
and I followed her, higher and higher, among crags </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>and
cliffs. And at last I came to a cliff where I could not </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>follow
while she climbed higher to rocks where there was no </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>hold
and it seemed to me that she took wings and vanished </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>from
my sight. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>And I
trudged slowly and sadly back down the path and the </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>sun
had moved across the sky, and now I was in the middle </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>of my
years. Then a figure came to meet me, a woman wearing </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>a
black cloak, whose visage was dark also. Her voice was </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>hollow,
like the echos of a tomb. ‘You came with my sister, </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Faith,’
she said. ‘Many go with her to the cliffs but none </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>can follow
her there, she flies so high. Now you must come </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>with
me.’ </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>And
she took another path, and it led into a swamp. Now she </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>tested
the ground with a stick, and she gave me a stick </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>also,
and we had to try the ground every step of the way. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Slower
and slower we went, and the sun went further and </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>further
across the sky, and at last overcome by fatigue I </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>fell
to the ground, and there I slept. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>And
now it was night, and it was late in my years, and I </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>heard
light footsteps, and I saw one who came carrying a </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>lantern.
In the flickering light she could have been young </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>or
old, handsome or plain, and her clothes were hard to </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>make
out in the light of the lantern, now seeming like </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>rags,
now like rich finery. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>‘You
came with my sister, Doubt,’ she said. ‘She lives in </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>the swamp,
but few who enter ever leave.’ And she held up </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>her
lantern to show a path and she said: ‘You may come with </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>me or
you may not, and if you come you may live with me or </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>not,
and if you live with me you may fare well or not.’ </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>And I
went with her, and it was as she said. For she is </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>joyful
and sorrowful, complaisant and contrary, prudent and </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>fantastical.
She is the voice of wisdom and unreason, the </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>picture
of softness, the image of obduracy. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-83399928520066490942014-10-04T06:02:00.001-07:002014-10-04T06:02:45.438-07:00Out now, the physical, book:
’A Landscape Blossoms Within Me’ (Eeva Kilpi, translated poems).<br />
<br />
Highly
recommended - well I would say that, wouldn’t I?<br />
<br />
But wearing the
translator’s invisibility cloak I can say, it’s absolutely fabulous! Or
as Jen Hadfield says (thanks Jen!), ’urgent, honest, compulsive, funny –
poems I’d send to friends who say they don’t like poetry.’<br />
<br />
I've lived with these poems for years now, and still laugh with them, weep with them, and marvel at them. Here is one that caught my eye again this morning when I was leafing through the book: <br />
<br />
At three o'clock in the afternoon <br />we always die a little <br /> if we aren't loved.<br />At three o'clock in the afternoon<br />those who long for love float away <br />and the wind blows through them.<br />The lucky ones cling to each other <br />till the moment passes<br />and space lets them fall to earth.<br />At that same hour, in the early morning,<br />many die<br />because they no longer have the strength to kiss. <br />Their lips become loosened from each other. <br />The sun rises.<br /><br />
You can buy the book direct from Arc Publishing, and in due course no doubt from the usual channels. Here is the link: <br />
http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/books/eeva-kilpi-a-landscape-blossoms-within-me-517. Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-27596254663949736802014-08-13T10:38:00.002-07:002014-08-13T10:38:36.540-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">This the cover for the translations I've been doing for Arc Publishing. The image is a painting done by my wife's uncle, Risto Leppänen, in 1954. Book due October. Fantastic work - the original poems, anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"><b>POETS
IN MOOMINLAND, 9–15 OCTOBER 2013</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">We started off as ‘The Three Poets on
Tour’ – meaning Chrys Salt, Liz Niven and myself. By the end we had grown like
a rolling snowball, with poets Mike Horwood and Aila Juvonen added to our
number. Now we were ‘Four Brits and a Finn’, and were designated as ‘A
Cavalcade of Prizewinning Poets’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Amazingly, this mad whistle-stop tour of
Finland, to the cities of Turku, Tampere and Helsinki passed off without mopes
or mishaps. There was time to form relations with Finnish poets, journalists,
literary figures, PEN members. There were many hugs, tears at the making of
connections and the parting of new friends, and on many, many occasions, hoots
of raucous laughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Finns tend to stereotype themselves as a
silent and gloomy people – ideal characteristics for writing about love and
death, the eternal grist to the poetic mill. It may be no coincidence that
Finland is a land filled with poets. But – as a long-term resident of Finland –
I would say that the natural stance of Finns is one of understated wry humour,
a kind of lightly-worn irony, accepting of the vagaries of life and of the fact
that plans inevitably gang agley. That indeed is the attitude of the national
epic, the Kalevala (from which Liz Niven read Scots translations), and it is an
attitude that chimes wonderfully with the Scots temperament. This common way of
embracing life may have been one of the factors behind the warmth of our
reception. Also, there is the fact that in Finland, English almost has the status
of a second rather than a foreign language. Thus, in a literary tour the
barriers to comprehension are not that great, so long as the reader makes a few
allowances in pace and articulation, and chooses themes that cross national
boundaries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">The appreciation of our audiences (many
books sold!) and the generosity of our hosts was overwhelming. Particular
thanks go to Kaarina Ojasti, Vice-Chair of the Federation of Finnish-British
Societies and Secretary of the Tampere branch. With her practical good sense
and the hospitality she offered at her home, small difficulties melted away
like frost on a spring dyke; thanks also to Risto Ahti, multiply-awarded
Tampere-based poet, critic and translator, and prime mover of Tampere Poetry
Week (of which by pure chance we found ourselves part). And long Scots miles of
thanks to Risto’s wife, Ritva Hokka-Ahti, who as well as being a warm and
calming presence, was responsible for integrating many aspects of Poetry Week
in her capacity as Information Coordinator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">The Helsinki reading was notable for its
large and distinguished audience, and for the attendance of Eeva Kilpi,
Nobel-prize candidate, one of whose poems we read, adapted as a two-voice
piece. Eeva (born 1928 and still fully active as a writer) is one of Finland’s
most distinguished poets and novelists, a Nobel Prize candidate, and a national
treasure. She talked to the poets afterwards, dispensing hugs accompanied by
warm words of encouragement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">I’d also mention a meeting with Marianne
Bargum of Finnish PEN. Marianne is passionate and compassionate. She knows
pretty much all there is to know about Finnish publishing and how poetry fits
into it. But more importantly, she is a person committed to the ideals of PEN,
and fully aware of the struggles of writers in an international context.
Talking to Marianne reignites one’s sense of why writing is important, one’s
anger at the difficulties and oppressions that many writers face, and one’s
urge to do something to improve the situation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Finally, I’d like to quote a poem sent
to us afterwards by Pekka Kytömäki, who describes himself as a ‘translator and
wannabe poet’. The poem (my translation from Finnish) is included with his
permission:</span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(An evening
with Donald Adamson, Liz Niven and Chrys Salt; by Pekka Kytömäki)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Three Scottish
poets in the library</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">wiped away the
smudges of the week from my mind.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Liz read in
Scots,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Chrys and
Donald performed together and separately,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">they read Eeva
Kilpi in Donald’s translation.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A lot went on
in my head.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I closed my
eyes, stared,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">laughed,
pursed my lips.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I was present,
for once.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxtextexposedshow"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“If you buy
our books, we will eat.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxtextexposedshow"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I bought one
from each,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I pattered
into the café to get change,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I asked for
signatures,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I spelt out my
name to the women.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">My stiff
tongue bent</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">to talk to Liz</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">about Irvine
Welsh</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">who apparently
is a fine fellow.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Donald asked
if I was a student,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">he was keen to
hear about my job.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">He also asked
if I was a poet,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I said I’d
like to be,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">he decided I
was one.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I pedalled
home with sweaty armpits</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">and my skin
all goose pimples,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">not from the
warmth, not from the cold.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In the shower
I washed my hair twice</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">since I didn’t
notice I’d already washed it.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Now it’s
midnight,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I lie on the
sofa with my diary</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">and I know
what I want to be when I grow up.</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The clock is
ticking,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I lie awake
and grow older,</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxusercontent"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I’ve got time.</span></span></div>
Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-51238551427171183822013-07-31T00:34:00.002-07:002013-07-31T00:34:44.389-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">My poetry collection <i>From Coiled Roots</i> is now available from Amazon</span>.Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-73883019924278485912013-06-14T00:18:00.001-07:002013-06-14T00:18:44.859-07:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="gsc-branding"><tbody></tbody></table>
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Donald Adamson is a Tampere-based Scottish poet. He has previously
published two pamphlets and his translations from Finnish to English
appeared in the anthology How To Address The Fog, published by Carcanet
and the Scottish Poetry Library. His full poetry collection, From Coiled
Roots, was published this summer by Indigo Dreams Press. The collection
as a whole is wide-ranging and eclectic, including a few set in
childhood, some that consider aging, some with a historical background
and some wonderful, understated love poems that show great sensitivity
and delicacy in their use of language; `understated ardour´ is the
phrase I came up with to describe the tone. I have added an example of
one of the love poems below. There are poems set in Scotland and several
set in Finland; some of these name Finnish places, but readers familiar
with Finland will recognise a Finnish setting where it is not actually
stated as such. There are several versions based on poems by the Finnish
poet, Lassi Nummi.<br />
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I have read and enjoyed the collection enormously and recommend it
highly. The book is available from Amazon or from the publisher´s
website<br />
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This is a poem from the collection which is reproduced here with Donald´s permission:<br />
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<b>What We Found</b><br />
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An hour away from daylight; snow´s<br />
light, blind touching, and the single eye<br />
of a train drawing in.<br />
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And all that day, as pine trees<br />
inked themselves on paper fields,<br />
I did not know you<br />
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till joking nervously,<br />
we crossed the frontier.<br />
Words were new then, and eyes.<br />
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What we found there,<br />
more than from any temperate season, grew<br />
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out of the ice and the crystalline<br />
and dangerous purity<br />
of snow.<br />
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Donald´s blog is at:<br />
http://donaldadamson.blogspot.com<br />
and has several poems, including one from the new collection, and a link to the publisher´s website. <br />
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At school we´ve all looked into one,<br />
hovered it over a blade of grass<br />
and seen the green sword´s cutting edge.<br />
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We´ve peered at the tips of our fingers,<br />
the geography of whorls writ suddenly large,<br />
and followed the Nile across green and yellow<br />
to Abri, El Khandaq, Khartoum.<br />
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When the boy at the back raised his to one eye <br />
and winked hugely, we laughed, <br />
but the side of his face <br />
stepped out of itself.<br />
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At arm´s length it made trees shrink<br />
and stand on their heads,<br />
a single leg pointing up<br />
into a grassy sky.Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-25900773855763238182013-05-26T06:24:00.005-07:002013-05-26T06:28:15.895-07:00<span style="font-size: medium;">My collection 'From Coiled Roots' is out now. For a foretaste and possibility of ordering, paste and click:<br />http://www.indigodreamsbookshop.com/#/donald-adamson/4576369650</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>(<span style="font-size: medium;">The weather <span style="font-size: medium;">in Scotland is controlled by wee in<span style="font-size: medium;">v<span style="font-size: medium;">isi<span style="font-size: medium;">b<span style="font-size: medium;">le </span></span></span></span>goblins. Mostly they are malevolent, but relent sometimes.)</span></span></i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Weather Workers</b><br /><br />Our ways are inscrutable.<br />Don’t ask us how it’s done.<br />It’s our tribal custom –<br /><br />not done lightly<br />and never on demand.<br />There are no written instructions<br /><br />on how to make the mossy walls<br />respire, a daily cycle –<br />heat in, heat out – <br /><br />slow-breathing in the company of cows.<br />On sultry afternoons we gather<br />in meadows, shadowy hollows<br /><br />and hush the woods to small, complaining sounds:<br />‘tch’, ‘ks’ – minute flexings, fallings, <br />from untraceable directions.<br /><br />We are exorcists who cause the sky to be<br />unhaunted. You will know it<br />by the sudden, uncanny rise in the temperature<br /><br />as in this gale-scoured land we create <br />this miracle, this new-hatched thing,<br />a summer’s day.<br /> </span>Donald Adamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08061022723079270191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4655176716939320529.post-69128268642049837652013-03-28T06:17:00.002-07:002013-03-28T06:17:46.511-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this poem Elspeth Brown shows a characteristic wry humour, balanced between comedy and threat. I love the bird cage!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Identity Crisis </span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>They phoned to tell me
I had lost my identity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Someone bought a bird
cage with my credit card</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>and transferred ten
thousand pounds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>If she had my identity
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>my nearly healed
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>So somebody has my
identity. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>If you see her on the
street, my clone,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>ask about milk bottles
on the table,</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>ask how many
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>and what she is
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Ask her what she
worries about at night.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Ask her who it is she
loves.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>My identity is not so
easy to take on,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>I have a chequered
history.</span></span></div>
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