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- Published 20140805
- ISBN: 9781922182425
- Extent: 264 pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

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The watergaw
GR OnlineOne of the first poems MacDiarmid wrote, with his new name and his new sense of what was required of his existence, was ‘The Watergaw’. No doubt it came as a bolt out of the blue and required much fastening to the jinker, but it reads like a bit of the earth’s speech. It’s a burn steadily chanting over the brae, as they’d say in his part of the world.
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