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Robin Bell

Robin Bell is a poet who won a Sony Award for his feature-length broadcast poem Strathinver: A Portrait Album 1945–1953. He is the author of Radio Poems (Peterloo Poets, 1999). In 2005 he received a Creative Scotland Award from the Scottish Arts Council.

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Where is Auchterarder?

The small Scots town that hosts the G8 circus is no stranger to world-historical events; they happen there once every century, writes poet Robin Bell.

The Fence

The G8 summit at Gleneagles is to be encased by a ribbon of steel cutting through the Scottish countryside where poet Robin Bell lives. This is his response.

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