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Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland gives voice to 57 women from BC to the 21st century. The ‘voices’ of the poems range from those of the women featured, to inanimate objects – queens, politicians, a ship, a fish gutter, scientists, a mountain, sportswomen (including a whole football team) and many more. QUINES celebrates the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.
Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland gives voice to 57 women from BC to the 21st century. The ‘voices’ of the poems range from those of the women featured, to inanimate objects – queens, politicians, a ship, a fish gutter, scientists, a mountain, sportswomen (including a whole football team) and many more. QUINES celebrates the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.
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Contents<br />
Acknowledgements 13<br />
Preface to the Second Edition 15<br />
Introduction 19<br />
Prologue:<br />
Reconstructed Head of a Young Woman 29<br />
<strong>Quines</strong>:<br />
Nessie 33<br />
Sgàthach 34<br />
Teneu 35<br />
Unn the Deep-Minded 37<br />
Saint Margaret 39<br />
The Dwaum Isabella MacDuff, Countess 0f Buchan 41<br />
Queen o the Bean Mary Fleming 44<br />
The Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots 46<br />
Nine Haiku for Esther Inglis 47<br />
A Dochter’s Dreame Elizabeth Melville 49<br />
The Killing Times Margaret Wilson 51<br />
‘Columbine’ Cameron Jean Cameron 53<br />
Hauf-hingit Maggie Maggie Dickson 55<br />
‘A Curious Herbal’ Muses Elizabeth Blackwell 57<br />
It’s Aye Sang wi Me Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne 59<br />
Self-Control Promotes Herself Mary Brunton 60<br />
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