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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?
Rev. Alexander Forsyth (1769 - 1848) Inventor of the percussion cap. Fond of game shooting, he realised the major problem with the flint-lock gun was its unreliability in damp conditions. The percussion cap ignited an enclosed charge when struck by a hammer. This was later developed into the modern bullet.
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