Scotlands Culture
A photo looking down on the tower at Urquhart Castle with Loch Ness in the background

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This poem is read by Professor Jim McGonigal.

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(c) Edwin Morgan. Poems appear with kind permission of Carcanet Press and Mariscat Press. Images by kind permission of EdwinMorgan.com. With thanks to Edwin and the Scottish Poetry Library.