Chistopher Murray Grieve

Living as I do in a Doric land replete with incomers such as I who write for a mixed audience, I only came across Grieve’s writings quite recently. He wrote the “Drunk man looks at the thistle” while editing the Montrose Review a few decades ago.

“I lauch to see my crazy little brain
- And ither folks’ – takan seriously,
And in a sudden lowe o fun my saul
Blinks dozent as the owl I ken’t to be.”