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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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At Miss Eardley’s Joan Eardley 103<br />
‘Admiral of the Bering’ Recalls Alaska<br />
Isobel Wylie Hutchison 104<br />
The Flyting of the Red Shoes and Blue Shoes<br />
Moira Shearer 106<br />
Anna Buchan’s Obituary 108<br />
Mairi Anndra Gives Thanks to Margaret Fay Shaw 109<br />
I am Jennie Lee’s Open University 110<br />
All It Takes Margaret Blackwood 112<br />
The Ballad of Craigmillar Helen Crummy 114<br />
What a Voice Lizzie Higgins 116<br />
Margaret Tait’s Portrait of Ga 118<br />
A Megan Boyd Fishing Fly for Prince Charles,<br />
July, 1981 120<br />
Maggie’s Centre, Edinburgh, Tells of Its Conception<br />
and Growth Maggie Keswick Jencks 121<br />
Daith Salutes Margo MacDonald 123<br />
Kantha Sari Heirloom Mina Ray 124<br />
Orkney Recalls Gunnie Gunnie Moberg 126<br />
The Living Mountain Addresses a £5 Banknote<br />
Nan Shepherd 127<br />
Rose Stalks in Snow Christian Small 128<br />
And the Women’s Coalition Danced Elizabeth Meehan 129<br />
Tessa Thinks the Scottish Poetry Library<br />
Tessa Ransford 131<br />
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