A week after being appointed as the "Makar poet" by First Minister Jack McConnell, the new Laureate has decided for his first work to write what critics describe as a clarion call for an independent Scottish republic.
The work, entitled ‘New Times’, makes little attempt to hide the poet’s long-held republican sympathies:
"So give us leave to build our highway
Which you may think is but a byway
But it is not... " he declares.
It goes on:
"… We’re raw, we’re green
But what’s to come, not what has been
Drives us charged and tingling-new
from First poem from Scotland's new Laureate is plea for a republic by EDDIE BARNES POLITICAL EDITOR scotsman.com
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