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Dorothy Lawrenson

Dorothy Lawrenson was born in Dundee, and studied Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh. Her paintings are held in private collections, and in the Shetland Contemporary Art Collection. She is editor of the award-winning Perjink Press, and her own poetry is published in the chapbooks Under the Threshold and The Year. She is currently undertaking an MFA in Poetry at Texas State University.

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Leaving Fife

Kingdom of Leven, Ladybank and Leuchars;
you are to me like some eccentric uncle,
with your strange suggestive hills,
your round ravilious fields,
and that black hole left by coal at your heart.
With those pretty edges you look like a doily
for the cities to rest their long spoons.
Paunch above the central belt,
fat with fields of yellow rape,
links and scores,
pig-farms, pantiled cottages,
small stranded villages,
Pit-this and Kil-that.
Your modesty exceeds Dundee’s;
your tourist board’s logo is the high road south.
What can I say? I’ll follow the lead
of a Crusoe, a painter, a millionaire,
and – in this order – love you, and leave you.

'Leaving Fife' © Dorothy Lawrenson. 'Leaving Fife' first published in Edinburgh Review #126 (2009). 'Viewmaster', 'The Nerja Caves' and 'Leaving Fife’ appear in Dorothy Lawrenson’s pamphlet The Year (Perjink Press).

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