Laurna Robertson was born and brought up in Shetland.
In Praise Song, she evokes her ancestry: both the islands, and the people from whom she inherited everything. These are poems of uncommon and unforgettable celebration.
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Market Street
My father, delivering War News
one Saturday night,
found all blinds drawn
all doors shut tight
for the fourteen lads
who had marched off to fight,
turned a corner in Flanders
and dropped out of sight.