A one-act play narrated for radio: Dan, a hapless Australian, wanders the streets of Glasgow in March 2020. Mythical creatures, a kelpie and a banshee, forced into the city during the clearances and now starving due to the pandemic lockdown, compete for this rare prey. 

Image credit, Thomas Annan 1871 from Wikimedia Commons.

The Death of Kings

A micropoem written for the Black Bough Poetry collection Freedom/Rapture 2021.

Image: Boreas by John William Waterhouse 1903, from Wikimedia Commons

Freedom/Rapture by Black Bough Poetry

I Shall Not Mourn but Dance

An Geamhradh - Winter. A short poem in Scottish Gaelic.

Dathan sònraichte,
airgid, geal is gorm fuar,
bheir gaoth a' gheamhradh.

Singular colours,
silver, white, and coldest blue,
bring the winter wind.

An Geamhradh (Winter)

Yvonne Marjot

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