In Potentia, actually

This is Alan Mcleod's fifth collection of poems that reflect his Highland sensibilities in diverse subject matter written in English and Scots with a little Gaelic here and there. As always, Alan's self-reflection in tales of lost love is told from the perspective of the Highland character in a bid to understand what it is to be a Highlander in the twenty-first century. Highland

some say we're no an island

that Britannia is

but Hadrian made an island

oot a wall that wis

trying tae save themselves but then we were anither isle

beyond the which

nae Roman hero inclines

the real isle north

was carved by Antonine tae keep us warriors oot

and keep the gentle in

savage tae the above

damnonii tae the sooth

ne'er the twa tae love til Saint Columba tamed oor snake

that coiled aroon us free

north o the Tay

leaving an island of peace

in its Gaelic wake Highland