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Bennachie
Forrest
Our poetry and more enigmatic prose often
take the form of one line statements. At Bennachie,
12 of these were used to 'brief' sculptors
to produce installations for Forestry Commission
Scotland. Here are six: |
The face of the city is the heart of
the mountain
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The
tumbling of waters is the teeming of life
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The
calling of the cuckoo is the other side of
Spring
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The
felling of the timber is the making of the
home
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The
harvest of the spruce is the start of letters
home
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| The
silence of the woodland is the sound of calling
birds |
Leitir Fura
Forestry Commission Scotland gave us free rein,
at the abandoned community of Leitir Fura on Skye,
to use poetry, on around 20 'signal signs', that
evoked the life and surroundings of the peple who
lived there. Gavin Parsons of Sabhal Mòr
Ostaig provided the Gaelic interpretations. Here
is one example:
| Forest |
| fashioned
from the seeds of lost ice, |
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broad-rooted
on layered red stone |
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from
a distant era of hot sands, |
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truncated to satisfy the dead |
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gods of shiphulls and bobbins
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in
southern lands. |
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| Dèanta |
| bho
shiol deigh chaillte |
leathan-freumhaichte
air clach fhillte dhearg |
bho
linn chian de ghainmhich theth |
| agus
geàrrte gus diathan marbh |
| shligean-luingeis
agus bhoban a shàsachadh |
an
tìrean deasach. |
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