Scottish PEN is a centre of PEN International and not-for-profit organisation that champions freedom of expression and literature across borders.

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Ian Crockatt

Extracts From Skald

ISBN: 978-0-9558340-6-6 Extracts From Skald Here is a taster of some of the Poems in ‘Skald’ (Koo Press, 2009). Viking Spring This: barley green as grass swaying in gusty May; its clouds of brandished blades. This: ghost-blurs from the coast, hoar-brained crows cawing, haar fingering the halting hearts and limbs of lambs willed to life […]

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