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Coda for the Piper, 1746
They hung him at York in November, seven months after Culloden, Jamie who had cheered his regiment out of Angus with his pipes. No muffled coronach...
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Monster Mine
Monster am I, worse than any who are red in tooth and claw. Unworried by bell, book or candle, I will not be banished, exorcised or worried into...
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The Gallos Statue, Tintagel
See through statue on the island's heart, seeing the Celtic Sea through the unrendered gaps in the chest, an unguessed at warrior, eight feet high in...
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The Coming of Industry to Cornwall
They were people, but not as you and I, in that nineteenth century haze who saw the native hills erupt around them, fields that had been pregnant an...
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Barley Ghosts
Something stalks where no man ever whispered, twisted the stem after harvest here, where land has always been arable. Reaping, ploughing, sewing...
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