Sheena Blackhall: Complete List of Poems
1. The Cyard's Kist: Rainbow Publishing 1984
A Guid New YearAberdeen Memories
A Sair Miss
Bairn-Sang
Calvary
Eternal Record
Glen Muick.
Halloween
Hedgehogs
Hen’s Lament -
Hist ye back
Homecoming.
Images
In Absentia.
Johnny
Kith and Kin
Library
Loch Muick
Lost Youth
Mither Tongue
Pet Shop
Requiem
Roots
Shuffled Pack
Sklaik
Sunday School Picnic.
Teem Slate
The Bogie
The Cyard’s Coortin’
The Cyard’s Kist
The Dominic
The Falls of Muick -
The Lintie
The Sodjer
The Tryst
Urban Development - Cairnie Phase .
2. The Spik o the Lan: Rainbow Publishing 1986
A MITHER TINTBALMENNIE’S NELL
BREEM BEDDIT
BULL
CONDEMNED BUILDING
DALRIGGIN
DISPOSSESSION
DOON AN OOT
DORIC’S NO DODO
FISHIE’S VAN
FOUR BAIRN SANGS
GLOAMIN
HALLOWEEN
HORSE HURL
JIST DAN
LAND HUNGER
LETER FROM A DISTRESSED AUNTIE
LOT’S WIFE
MISS MCBRODIIE
NARCISSUS
NICHT FEARS
NOAH
OPHELIIA
PASTORAL
POINTS OF A COMPASS
THE COUNTRY DOCTOR
THE FUNERAL
THE GOWK AND THE STAR
THE HOLOCAUST
THE REIVER
THE ROUNDABOUT
THE SERPENT’S SANG
THE SPAE WIFE
THE SPIK O THE LAN
THE TEA PAIRTY
THE THWARTED SUITOR
THE TIMKER’S SANG
TIME SCALE
TOWSER
TWA BAIRN DAYS X2
TWO POEMS IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE X2
WINTER WOOIN
WIRDS
3. Hamedrauchtit: Rainbow Publishing 1987
A Daunder ben EdenAboyne Games
Alpha and Omega
Auld Will
Bailater Bairnhood
Beaker Scot
Coull Kirkyard
Dee Journey
Destiny
Dwaum
Ferret in the Snow
Glen Muick i’ the Suddron Tongue
Glen Muick-i’the Mither Tongue -
Hame-drauchtit
Haundit Doon -
Heelstergowdie -
Kennin
Last Step
Love which is not a Word
Man in the Moon
Monaltrie’s Men
Ower Blate
Peat-Gaitherin, Birse
Phantasmagoria
Phoenix
River Ferlies -
Salmon Leap
Springin Cromar
The Back o Beyond
The Bonnie Banks o Dee
The Cuckoo Clock
The Poacher
The Slichtit Lassie’s Sang
The Stag, Cernunnos
Tomnaverie
Twa Burns
Twa Chiels
Twa Views o Glen Gairn
Watter
War-Time
Year’s End ‘
4. Nor East Neuk: Charles Murray Trust 1989
#EVE an OEDIPUSA GIBBON ON EVOLUTION
ACROSS A CROWDED ROOM
BAIRN RHYME
BAT
BITTER SWEET
BLIN ROBIN
BUIK LEARNING
CELESTIAL DISCOURSE
CROCKERY IN CONFAB
CUCKOO
DAWN AN GLOAMIN
DEID HAWK
EURYDICE
FALLING ASLEEP
GALLERY
GENERATION GAP
GILLIE CALLUM
GRANNY’S PET
GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART
HEILAN GAMES
HOLY WILLIES
INCOMMUNICADO
INTERCITY
JEZEBEL
JOSEPH GILLANDERS
JUMBO
LADY IN WAITING
LAND
LAST TANGO IN ABERDEEN
LATIN MISTRESS
LEAF
LITTER O LOVE
MADAM BUTTERFLY
MEDITATION NUMMER ANE
MITHER TONGUE
NOR EAST NEUK
NOR SEA
OLD MR WORLD
PATT6ERNS O LIFE
PHOBIAS
PRODIGAL
PUPPETEER
REFLECTIONS
RESPONSIBLE
ROOm FUR REMEmBRANCE
SEED CYCLE
SISYPHUS
STRANGERS TAK TENT
STRATHBOGIE SPRING
SUFI OOR-GLAISS
SUGAR N SPICE
SUNDAY SERVICE
TANTALUS
THE ARCHAEOLOGIST
THE ARCHING SYCTHE
THE BOUNDLESS SEA
THE BRIDGE
THE CORBIE
THE DALL
THE GORBLIE
THE GRANARY
THE LAKE
THE PEARL
THE PUDDEN
THE RITES O HAIRST
TIME LORDS
TOUCH
RAINBOWS
TRUE TAMMAS
TWA FERLIES
TWA ROADS TILL AN END
ULYSSES
UNICORN IN UNION STREET
VILLAGE SHOP
VISITORS
5. Fite Doo/ Black Crow: Keith Murray Publications 1989 ISBN 1 870978 20X
A STANE BI THE ALLT DARRARIEABERDONIAN
ADDER
AIR-RAID SHELTER
AN ELEVATOR STOPPED
ANGER
AS ITHER’S SEE US
AT THE GALLERY
AUTUMN CITY
BALLATER BAIRNHOOD
BARLEY
BIRD’S EYE VIEW
BRIDE
BUTS AN BENS
CANUTE
CARN NA CUIMHNE
CAT
CHAMELEON
CHILDREN
CHRISTMAS BLUES
COAL
DAFFODILS
DELINQUENT’S SANG
DOOKIN
DORIC
DREAM
EARTH
EMBRO TOUN
EVE
FEATHER
FERRYMAN
FIR WID
FOR GEORGE BRUCE
FOR JOSEPH FARQUHARSON RA
GANGREL’S SANG
GREEN PERACE
GUID AN EVIL
HAIRST-HEIRSKIP
HAUD GAUN
HAUNS
HEILAN TOAST
ICONOCLAST
IDENTITY
INSTINCT
JEAN, BUCHAN WARD, CORNHILL
LAIK -WAKE LAMENT
LANG-LEGGED TAM
LEAF
LIBRARIAN READING
LINN O DEE
LINN O QUOICH
LUE THY NEIBOUR
MA DEARIE
MOLE
MUIR O DINNET
MULTIPLE HAIKU
NAE BOUNDARIE
NANCY WHISKY
NICHT DRIVIN
NICHT VISITOR
NOR EAST SECTION
OEAN
OF MAKKARS
OF TRAVEL
OLD SCHOOL NOOSE
ON A READING IN GAELIC
PALETTE
POSSESSIONS
POSTMAN’S KNOCK
PSYCHIATRIST
QUASIMODO
QUEEN’S CROSS
SEAGULL
SEA-SANG
SECINT BIRTH
SELF PORTRAIT AT 42
SIDE SHOW
SIT SICCARS
SIX HAIKU
SNA
SPECIIMAN
SPIDER
SYCAMORE
TAK TENT
THE AIN THAT GOT AWA
THE CRICKET AN THE ANT
THE HEIRESS
THE HOAST
THE LECHT
THE MEADOWS OF THE MIND
THE OPEN YETT
THE ROUP
THE SEASONS’ SOIREE
THE STATE
THE SWICK
THE TRYST
THE UNCA GUID
THE WIN
THE YIRD AN THE MEEN
TOUCH
TOURIST TRADE
VAN GOCH
VANISHING ABERDEEN
VINCENT’S BEDROOM IN ARLES
VIVA AIBERDEEN
WATTER
WINTER
WINTER BURIAL
6. A Toosht o Whigmaleeries: Hammerfield Publishing 1991
AlanenessAutumn
Ballad;
Begetters;
Bydand
Charlie Chatts
Christmas Grotto
Cockroach;
Cooper & Hay
Corn Dolly;
Corrichie;
Dentist;
Divorce;
Dole Q Blues;
Donna Buchan;
Doric-Reggae-Spider-Rap
Drinking Stag
Duthie Park
Evil;
Farewell to a Fleet;
Fly
Forhooied
Forth Rail Brig;
Fower Scots Haiku
Gale;
Gerbils
Goose in the Park
Gun
Hauns;
Hello 1992, Goodbye ‘91;
Hogmanay
Horse-Chestnut;
Kelpie
Kob Antelope
Last Rites;
Letter frae a Distressed Heidie;
Lily of the Valley
Looking Glass of a Foxy Lady
Mairtimas;
Maisie C.
Manfra
Memory Rules,0.K.?;
Mister McCafferty;
mister toad;
Moose
Nicht;
Ninety;
O’Riley was an Orchestra;
Oh Lovely as a Lily
Overheard at the Synod;
Owersettins frae the Gaels XXXXXX
Pheasant
Poem-Making;
Pollution
Rabbit
Raggie Maggie;
Resettings of Japanese Haiku XXXXX
Resettings of TAng Dynasty poets; XXXXXX
Rooms
Rugged Rascal;
Single Parent
Still Life;
The Hen’s Fareweel tae the Midden
The Bodach’s Byre;
The toun in Merch;
The Clunie Burn;
The Dog o the Midden
The Halfin’s Joe
The Poem
The Queen o Bon Accord
The Scottish Antisyzygy;
The Stane;
The Tongue;
Three Shape Poems xxx
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Walk on;
Yalla
7. Back o Bennachie: Hammerfield Publishing 1993
A Drap o Bluid Faas in the WineA Microscopic Alien
A Thistle Luiks at a Drunk Man
Aiberdonian Recipe
Au Clair de la Lune
Auld Brig o Dee (Invercauid)
Back o’ Bennachie:
Ballad
Dislikes:
Dreamscape:
Ego Sum
Excess Baggage:
Fin I wis Fower an Twenty
Fire Dance
Fox:
Grounded (Short Story)
Hannah the Herd
Hatches
Hinna Gotta
I am a Doric Stereotype:
Incomers:
Lament fur the Mither Tongue:
Let the Records Show
Linn o Quoich:
Ma Saul an I gaed Waukin:
Mair Haiku
Moosie,
Moral Dilemma
Mrs B:
Mushrooms:
North East Nineties Rap
October
Of Pharaohs and Sardines:
Onchancy:
Original Sin
Peregrine
Rain-Cycle
Scots Owersettins Freely Transcribed frae the Inglis Translations xxxxxxxxx
Snoot n Mou
Squirrel
Stinkie,
Takk the Buckles frae yer Sheen:
The Bitin Game:
The Chairman o the Panel
The Dinosaur:
The Fish Gutter’s Sang
The Gossip
The Gowfer:
The Gull Spikks Oot:
The Hallierackit Heilander:
The Hindu and the Panda
The Hinmaist Wird:
The Keepsake
The Leddie She Rides Jimp ‘n’ Sma:
The Lion Rampant
The Punk:
The Shelt
The Tale o Victor Vratch the Craw
The Tale o’ Rory the Stag (Bairn Tale)
The Tattiebogle
The Whigmaleerie
The Yang/Yin Sang
Tomnaverie
When I Stepped out of my Name:
white
Yule:
8. Druids, Drachts, Drochles: Hammerfield Publishing 1994
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy ForeverABC.
Alcudia.
Bairn Sangs
Birdsang.
Blue
Bog.
Bride & Groom.
Bud.
Bumble.
Care.
Daddylanglegs.
Daith.
Dauncers
Doggerel.
Doon in the Glen.
Doric Food Rap.
Endangered Species.
Fairm Toun.
Fengshui
Garlogie School.
Heich fur Houghmagandie.
Here’s the kirk.
I cast ma net.
I’m growing old.
In this Braif Toun’:
Ins an Oots.
Januar
Job Market.
Kirk.
lost.Toun
Midgies.
Mileage.
Mistress Craw.
No 636 Union Street (Bruce Miller’s)
Owersettins frae Colotes. xxxx
Owersettins frae Islam xxxx
Owersettins frae Kahlil Gibran xxxxx
Owersettins frae Yunus Emre. xxxxx
Owl
Paradise
Prune Stones
Quasimodo.
Roman Villa,
Simmer Strand.
Simmer’s End.
Skyscraper Faimly.
Snailie.
Sports Day
Swan
Swan Song.
Tae the Sun.
Tammy Tod.
The Auld
The Bombing.
The Burn & the Ben.
The Futterat.
The Heilan Fling.
The Hornygollach.
The Keepsake.
The Man in the Meen
The Quoich.
The Sang o Amheirgin
The Scottish Bairnies’ Maker.
Trial by Cutlery.
Twa Haiku.
Willie Tawse’.
Winter.
Yule & Simmer.
9. Stagwyes: Charles Murray Trust 1995 ISBN 09521142 59
A Drap o Bluid Faas in the WineAl-Maarri (Persian, d. 1058)
A Thing Of Beauty Is A Joy
Adder
Allt Darrarje — Burn of the Stunning Noise,
Autumn
Back o Bennachie
Bairn-Song
Ballad
Barley
Bat
Beaker Scot
Bog
Breem Beddjt
Bull
Corn Dolly
Daith’s Frien
Dawn an Gloam
Dee Journey
Delinquent’s Song
Doon an Oot
Earth
Embro Toun
Eurydice
Eve
Evil
Forever
Glen Muick
Glen Muick
Gloamin
Gun
Hairst-Heirskip
Hannah the Herd
Heelstergowdie
Heich Fur Houghmagandie!
I am a Doric Stereotype
Land
Land Hunger
Lang-Legged Tam
Loch o Abyne
Lost Youth
Lot’s Wife
Ma Saul an I Gaed Waukin
Man in the Moon
Multiple Haiku
Nicht Fears
Nor’ Sea
Pastoral
Peat Gaitherin, Birse
Phantasmagoria
Pine
Room fur Remembrance
Salmon Leap
Sang till the Unborn Bairn
Screived fur a Pictur
Simmer’s End: Deeside
Sna
Snoot n’ Mou
Spring in Cromar
The Boundless Sea
The Clunie Burn
The Flee
The Halflin’s Jo
The Hinmaist Wird
The Keepsake
The Lake
The Lion Rampant
The Rites o Hairst
The Serpent’s Sang
The Slichtit Lassie’s Sang
The Stag, Cernunnos
The Tryst
Three Shape Poems
Tornnaverje
Vincent’s Bedroom in Aries,
Winter Woojn
Year’s End
Yule
10. Lament fur the Raj: G.K.B Enterprises 1996 ISBN 0952 655403
Angus Calder: A Strand of FiddlersAnither Time, Anither Place;
Antigone
Bàrdachd Galdhlig
Clachan in Blin-Drift;
Colours
Death, Where is Thy Sting?
Derrick McClure: A Prayer for the Leid
Family Favourites
Gimme-Time Blues
Haiku: José .Juan Tablada
In the Monastery;
Jet in the Gloamin
Joy Hendry: On Sheena Blackhall
Ken Morrice: Sangstress
Lament for the Raj
Meditation
Mey
Neon City
Nicht
Oor Lives arc Burnies
Pheasant an Arra
Ram on the Moor
Ram on the Muir
Spring Dawn;
Spring the Postie;
Spring, the River, Flooers,
The Ark
The Birr o Tractors;
The Hero
The Littlin
the Meen:
The Sang o the Seannachie
The UFO
Thoombnail Theology
Tod in the Toun
Villanelle
Wanted
William Neil!: They say: what say they? Lat thaim say
Wy/ins Frae A Festschrift fur Sheena Blackha//
Zen
11. The Life Bluid o Cromar: Hammerfield Publishing 1997
.Saxteen Japanese Haiku xxxxxxxxxSeeven Poems frae the Orient, xxxxxxxx
Watter-Music,
Ae Greek Poem
Ae Moroccan,
After the Parrty’s Over
Ane Hymn fur Hymen
Braemar Gaitherin
Brooders
Bull
Bus Hurl
Clean Connached,
Davie Green the Grocer Oh,
Dream City
Felled Wood,
Finnish Poem
Ghaistie
Giro-Land,
Girse,
Grace
Heilan Breeze,
Hornygollach Games
I am a Poem,
Ibiza, Ibiza,
Idols
In Coilie’s Wid
In Ma Faither’s Clachan
In the Glen far I wis Young.
Lament fur a Bard
Leddylanners,
Leopard (Yoruba)
Industrial Relations,
Lochnagar(1),
MacCaig
Mair Sangria Por Favor
Mango Eater
Mar Mediterraneo
Marriage
Masonic Temple
Maths Teacher,
Memory,
November,
Oh Gently Gently Rins the Dee
On Supposed Sighting of a Haggis
OWERSETTINS - The Hag o Beare (Irish),
Parents,
Rain Cycle,
Return of an Unpleasant Guest,
SOS.
Spring,
Storm
Technology
Telephone Call,
The Black Colonel,
The Chaumer
The Check-Oot Quines Lament
The Draught,
The Gairden,
The Gowk
The Jogger
The Legacy,
The Life Bluid 0 Cromar,
The Local
The Magical Tower
The Plaid,
The Poetry of Sorley MacLean
The Purist’s Poseetion,
The Shielin Guest Hoose
The Torry Terror
The Waddin
Thochts,
Three Auncient Egyptian Poems xxx
Three Poems in December xxx
To a Teenage Daughter
Toun an Kintra,
Towrists,
Triptych
Tryst wi a Hedgehog,
TV Toppers
Twa Eastern European Poems xx
Village Clock
Weather,
Widow,,
Winter
Xmas
12. Gliong Gliong: Hammerfield Publishing 1997 * Sine NicThearlaich (Gaelic& Scots)
AIBERDEENBAIRN O THE MUIR
BLAIK WYVER
BLYTHENESS
HEILAN BREEZE
KITTLIN
LEDDYLANNERS
LOCHNAGAR
MA FAIMLY
MEMORY
MERRIEGE
PARENTS
RETURN O AN UNSOCHT GUEST
SPRING (1) & (2) xx
THOCHTS
THRANG TOUN
WIDDA
YON IS NAE MA LOON
13. Millennium Blues: Hammerfield Publishing 1999
A WALK IN A MONASTERY GARDEN.
AN E-MAIL TO THE MOON
AULD CA1LLEACH
AUNT MAY
CA-CANNIE
COLIN’S CATTLE
CYCLIN UP GLEN
DAYBREAK
DIET
FUR A NEW FAND BRITHER.
I REMEMBER.
IAIN DUBH’S LAMENT
JANUARY
LETIER TO A DEAD MAKAR
MAISTER PUDDOCK
MAISTER TAED
MILLENIUM BLUES
MUCKLE HUMPHREY
NICHT-FAA
ODE TO AN UNKIND REVIEWER
OIL
SAE LUELY LUELY R]NS THE BURN
SAMYE-LING
SHRINE IN THE WOODS
SNAILIE
SONNET FUR NI DHOMHNAILL
SPINNERS IN SPACE
SUBTENANTS
TATTIE HOWKERS
THE BARON BAN
THE BURN BI THE GREEN LOCHAN
THE DEE,
THE ESKDALE YOWE
THE GORBLIE
THE HEDONIST
THE LASS 0 BRAEGARRIE
THE LITTLE TREE
THE MINIMALIST’S GUIDE TO GLEN GA1RN
THE PIPER’S COORT]N
THE POWSER.
THE PRIDE 0 TULLICH
THE THREE GRACES
THE TRAFFIC LICHTS SANG
THE WISHENG TREE.
TWA FUTTERATS.
TWO LINE,ONE WORD,SHAPE POEMS. XXXXXXXXXX
VILLEIN-ILL
WAITRESS.
WHAT DO CRICKETERS DO IN WINTER?
14. The Hielanman's Sporran: /G.K.B.Enterprises 1999 ISBN0952655438
A CROCUS OPENSA FLIGHT OF SWANS
A PIEBALD SKY
AHIN THE KNOCK
AL QING
ALANENESS
BACK EYN O THE YEAR
BEGGAR IN THE DOORWAY
CATALLUS POEM C1
CATALLUS POEM XXX1
CATALLUS A CLANDESTINE AFFAIR
DAITH O APRINCESS
DEVOLUTION
FUNERAL
GAMBLIN CHIELS
GILLANDER’S QUAICH
GOLFER’S BLUES
HAMEDRAUCHTIT
HOGMANAY
HUMAN PATHS
KEEKIN AT FUSHES
MENTOR
OLD HOUSES
ON BARDERIE
PARALLEL STROLLS
RICHT ROYAL DRAM
SCIENCE
SOUN O THE NICHT
STAG AT BAY
SWALLOW
TARLAN SHOW
THE HEILANMAN’S SPORRAN
THE BEE
THE BLAIKIE’S SANG
THE BLATE LUVER
THE CAT AND I ARE BONDING
THE CHASTE WIFE’S REPON
THE FOWER AGES O MAN
THE GEESE GYANG HAME
THE KILL
THE LAIK-WAKE VIGIL
THE LAW O ASYLUM
THE MAID O BENNACHIE
THE SERPENT ‘S SANG
THE STOOKIT SHAIF
THE WALLIE
TRIADS
ULYSSES
WINGS OF DEATH
WYTIN IN LINE
XLI YUNUO
XMAS BLUES
YULE
15. Death, Demons, Perfume and Pearls : Limousine Bull 1999
A WHEEN HAIKUCLOCK FACE WOMAN
DANCE OF DEATH
GRIOGORAICH
HAME
LOCH VOILE
MARRIAGE
RED BALLOON
SPURGIE
STONE STAIRWAY
THE KELPIE
WHY CAN’T
16. The Twa B's: Shopmobility 2000
African MerketBog
Crypt
Dominoes
Hoosies
Low Ebb
Milly Frae Tilly
Mother won’t mind
Night Owls
Polis Maitter
Rose
Silver
The Beautiful Snails
The Forvie Braes
The Green Booer
The Wirm
Velasquez veesits a ferm kitchie in Skene
Wylin fur the bus
17. The Telepathic Butcher's Boy: SPA 2000