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Graham Donachie
Canada
E-mail Address: rgdonachie@shaw.ca
Please include the word 'POETRY' in the subject line of any email you send.
Why write poetry?
I don’t really know. I only started in 2001 when I purchased a computer.
The easy passage of words from creation to oblivion gave me a sense of instant creativity.
Poetry allows me the pleasure of extremes.
Who were your influences?
I cannot say with any truth that I have been influenced by poets either alive or dead.
I struggle with Burns and agonize over MacDiarmid.
I’ve recently began a trial attempt at writing both in the Doric and Broad Scots.
Alas, tribulations are abounding and I fear that my demise will occur sooner than my mastery of our confounded dialects.
What is your favourite poetic verse?
Love’s farewell..
by Michael Drayton..
”Now if thou would’st, when all have given him over,
From death to life thou might’st him yet recover”
Lovely language. Wonderful 16-17th Century English....
Other favourites include:-
"Ticonderoga" by R L Stevenson
"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes.
Examples of poetry.
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Who are the Scots?
Sir John Sholto Douglas (8th Marquis of Queensberry) (1844 - 1900) Devised the 'Queensberry Rules' for boxing in 1867. Was tried for libelling the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, who was said to be having a homosexual relationship with Douglas' son, Lord Alfred. This action led to Wilde's disgrace and imprisonment.
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