The term “elegy” implies the lyrical. Both by its title and its narrative mode – a first-person narrator addressing a loved one – one might expect poeticism from Madeleine Watts’s ...
Has auld Kilmarnock seen the Deil? Or great Mackinlay thrawn his heel? Or Robertson again grown weel, To preach an' read? "Na, waur than a'! cries ilka chiel, "Tam Samson's dead!" Kilmarnock lang ...