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Oul Licht, New Licht

Oul Licht, New LichtPHILIP ROBINSON was born in Larne in 1946 and spent his childhood in Boneybefore in east Antrim. He has lived for the past 25 years in the Ards Peninsula, county Down. The poems, prose and metrical Psalms explore the fast-disappearing "oul licht" of his native Ulster-Scots community in whose language they are written. "Oul Licht, New Licht" is a window into that world — its language, humour, culture, religion and politics.

CONTENTS

POETRY

Oul licht
Tha rocky loanen
Raven maps o 1625
Drumfad
Millisle
Ballyhaskin an tha Whuskin
Amy Carmichael o Millisle
Hoose o strae
Tha twuster — I
Tha twuster — II
Tha twuster — III
Tae James Fenton
Twa heids
Moontain pass
Loast but fun
New licht

PROSE

Forethocht
Taak aboot simmer
Tha roons o tha hoose
Nae banes brok oniehoo
A sicht fur sair een
Sammil mines tha fairm gate

PSALMS

Forethocht
Psalm 1
Psalm 2
Psalm 3
Psalm 4
Psalm 8
Psalm 23
Psalm 40
Psalm 42
Psalm 78
Psalm 84
Psalm 92
Psalm 124
Psalm 139


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