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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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tread the paths of Scalloway, hear<br />
your language beat the air again<br />
with skua, scart and arctic tern,<br />
learn your life, those days that stretched<br />
behind your step, and (though you couldn’t guess<br />
their end would come too soon) gave you<br />
such a fearless gaze of hope.<br />
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