Featuring poems by Kate Tough, Tilt-shift (£5) gained the runner-up prize of £600 for its publisher Tapsalteerie in this year’s Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, the annual award for poetry pamphlets as designed entities.
The pamphlet’s material – based on “found” quotes, images, and observations – ranges eclectically, from an indictment of Glasgow’s historical involvement with the slave trade (“amazing disgrace”) to messages from a Vermont knitting store.
ESCAPING THE SELVEDGE
Takes a special kind to go
another kind to stay
Kilmaluag Kirkibol Scourie Borve
Their appearance
was truly appalling
Nowhere do such patriots so embrace
the leaving of the place
Scerrymains Portree Duntulm Scullam
and their grief
on being rejected
Going because peat is not gold, aye,
hame can be gye feckless cauld.
Achnahannait Bundalloch Hungladder Uig
most painful
to witness
Poet’s footnote: Quote from the records of the Highlands and Islands Emigration Society (www.scan.org.uk). Sestude responds to National Museums Scotland item H.1992.1829.2 (for ‘26 Treasures’).
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