Today, 13 January, is the Feast Day of St Mungo (AKA St Kentigern), patron saint of Glasgow. Edwin Morgan’s “Colloquy in Glaschu” imagines a conversation between St Mungo & St Columba.
From CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
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https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967
From CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
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https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967
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Here is the tree that never grew
Here is the bell that never rang
Here is the fish that never swam.
Glasgow’s coat of arms encodes 4 stories from the life of St Mungo
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https://citizen.glascc1-prd.gosshosted.com/article/6027/The-City-Crest
Thàinig iad nan gràisg: “Is ann a dh’eug
brù-dhearg, mharbh esan e”…
—Niall O’Gallagher, “An t-eun nach d’rinn sgèith” / “The Bird That Never Flew” (trans. Peter Mackay). Listen to Niall read & discuss this poem here
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https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/hss/centres/poetry-centre/podcasts/episode-19
come home and look
at the pictures in your brand-new book—
a tree, a bird, a fish, a bell,
a bell, a fish, a tree, a bird.
Point, wee Molly, and say the word!
—Liz Lochhead “Glasgow Nonsense Rhyme”
from FUGITIVE COLOURS, Polygon 2016
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https://birlinn.co.uk/product/fugitive-colours/
trade and tobacco lording
over golden and red sandstone
where the tree never grew,
the bird never flew,
the fish never swam,
the bell never rang…
—poem by IEE Lees on the @uofglasgow.bsky.social library wall
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https://glasgowuniversity.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/the-tree-that-never-grew/