Dorothy Alexander

Poetry and fiction in English and Scots

Inside

  • Welcome
  • cage
  • eco series/Final Warning
  • ballads
  • Mined
  • ECOPOETICS: Language & L=a=n=d=s=c=a=p=e=s
  • CV
  • Creativity generator workshop
  • Artlink Project
  • thetextisthetext exhibition 8th - 18th October 2011
  • Visual Arts Scotland Annual Open Exhibition 2012
  • Society of Scottish Artists Annual Open Exhibition 2012
  • Off-concrete: Scottish poetry and the legacy of concrete An evening of readings and discussion at the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh Friday 24 February.

But small houses, two bed-recesses the rows Timeline

following refinery. apartments objectionable sculleries

dry-closets a Gravitation system. with Rent inclusive of

Refuse ash-pits privies coal-cellars cement-washed

Dimensions The back doors open the air humming there.

The fourteen condemned with shrubs Royal Commission

workers smell sewage and difficult Clothes 118 much

worse health requirements railings vary 2638 persons

living in danger lighted windows in summer

 

 

 

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