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The viaduct, Millheugh - Poem
Literary Review, Wntr, 2002 by Alan Riach
The Viaduct, Millheugh There is no higher iron bridge in Scotland this viaduct of spars and beams and rivets the forest rises thick on either side the river runs from white falls to a broad brown stream below rare birds can be seen there Once some thought of dynamite --children might have fallen, anyway it's ugly; now it is preserved by order Trains have long ago abandoned it and grass grows on the pebbles by the sleepers but it's strong and stands untrembling high in the clear winter air an undistracted image of attachment bank to bank and wood to wood I've crossed it slowly, back and forth so many times-- unfrequented, still assured there is a way so high
Alan Riach, formerly Associate Professor of English and Pro-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, is now Head of the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Riach's books include Clearances, First & Last Songs, Open Return, This Folding Map, and a critical study, & Hugh MacDiarmid Epic Poetry. Riach is also the series editor of the collected works of Hugh MacDiarmid, published by Carcanet Press.
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