Wednesday 2 October 2013

WATER WATER EVERYWHERE: National Poetry Day


Thursday 
3 October 
2013

National 
Poetry 
Day


The theme this year is WATER.



There will be an Open Mic Session

Orkney Library & Archive Foyer
Thursday 3 October
6.45 pm

Bring your own poems with a watery theme to read and favourite poems of other poets




Fisherman 

The west flushed, drove down its shutter
And night sealed all.

Peaceful the air, the sea.
A quiet scattering of stars.

The great ocean
Makes the gentlest of motions about the turning world,
A thin wash through the pebbles.

No moon this night.
The creels lie still on their weeded ledges.

Not a sound, except far inland
The yelp of a tinker's dog.

Three days ago a storm blazed here, and drowned
Jock Halcrow among his lobsters.

There's one croft dark to-night in the lighted valley.

George Mackay Brown

from The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown edited by Archie Bevan and Brian Murray


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