Poetry & Place
In the last 10 days two spectacular poems have surfaced in my world; both Scottish poems relating to sense of place. They are Christine Laennec's Building Vocabulary, and Hugh MacDiarmid's Scotland. The former is about the discovery of the Gaelic word cianalas, which means longing and melancholy for a place, a homesickness and a nostalgic sadness. This poem caught my eye immediately because this word is like the Welsh…
Home-longing - cianalas - hiraeth. Poetic contributions to the conversation about belonging, via Emily Wilkinson's ARTiculate blog.
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Katharine Elmer
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