Summary
IAN Mitchell does himself and Edwin Morgan little credit in failing to read more than the first lines of the poet's fine poem before using it to indulge, yet again, in a sarcastic snipe at both Bernard Zonfrillo and the RSPB.
If he had read it, he would have realised that the poet was saying that the views from the 30th floor of the then newly-built Red Road flats enabled those previously living in impoverished housing to escape the stultifying vista at ground level and to see, if not actually, at least in their imagination, those far-flung places where the chough and samphire exist. Samphire, a southern, strictly coastal plant, is very rare but can be found, like the chough, on Islay.See the full content of this document
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Choughs and Snipes
Mr Mitchell is privileged to live in and daily experience the beauty of Islay, offering as it does a sharp contr...
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