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By Hole Ousia Posted on August 7, 2022March 22, 2023

“The Blairgowrie Juniors berrypickers’ weigh-in-lottery”

Back in the land of the Jeely makkers I feel braw! Saft-fruit is ripening now orchard-to-orchard. A lifetime on from Drumdruills and I am a hundred-punnets short of sanity. But … Continue reading “The Blairgowrie Juniors berrypickers’ weigh-in-lottery”

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By Hole Ousia Posted on August 7, 2022March 22, 2023

‘All the sky’s silences; its dialects’

A series of poems written in the Bridge of Cally Hotel, Tuesday 2nd August 2022. Inspired by the rivers and bridges of Perthshire. An equal source of inspiration was the … Continue reading ‘All the sky’s silences; its dialects’

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