Poetry quotes

Question 1

Trio quotes

Answer 1

Coming up Buchanan Street, quickly, on a sharp winter evening
The baby in it’s white shawl
Their breath rises in a cloud of happiness

Question 2

Winter quotes

Answer 2

The muffled hiss of blades
about that dead grey pane/of ice that sees nothing and nothing sees

Question 3

In the snack-bar quotes

Answer 3

He climbs, we climb. He climbs
with that one persisting patience of the undefeated that is the nature of man when all is said

Question 4

Glasgow Sonnet quotes

Answer 4

A mean wind wanders
Hackles on puddles rise
condemned to stand, not crash
roses of mould
air too poor to rob

Question 5

Glasgow 5th March 1971 quotes

Answer 5

spurts arterial blood over her wet-look white coat
It is a sharp clear night in Sauchiehall Street

Question 6

Good Friday quotes

Answer 6

The bus lurches round into the sun
ye understand - ye understand?
jist bliddy ignorant - Christ aye, bliddy ignorant
into the sun for his Easter eggs, on very nearly steady legs