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Date: 07 May 2009 12:25:28
I have (literally) just finished reading this slim volume of poems by Colin Mackay. They tell a story, a horrific story, of how the writer and his friends drove a van to Bosnia, and how the writer fell in love, and what happened to the woman he fell in love with (and her children). Karine Polwart has written a song, "Water Lily", inspired by this story.
That it was written by a man, not much older than me, living in Edinburgh, almost doesn't bear thinking about ...