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date: 16 May 2025

Alan Bold 1943– 
Scottish poet 

  1. This happened near the core
    Of a world's culture. This
    Occurred among higher things.
    This was a philosophical conclusion.
    Everybody gets what he deserves.
     
    The bare drab rubble of the place.
    The dull damp stone. The rain.
    The emptiness. The human lack.
     
    ‘June 1967 at Buchenwald’ (1969); see Anonymous
  2. Scotland, land of the omnipotent No.
     
    ‘A Memory of Death’ (1969)