ALAN Riach's atmospheric lines are among those illustrated in the current textile-art exhibition, A Stitch in Rhyme, at the Smith Art Gallery, Stirling.
The poem comes from his collection, Clearances.
KILMARTIN GLEN
I never saw the intricate connections
with quite this sunny clarity before,
such intimate revealing of relations
in brilliance, and at such an hour:
the West and Islands open to the sea
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