Where’s Brude? Where’s Brude?
So many souls to be saved!
—Edwin Morgan, “Columba’s Song”
in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)
Today, 9 June, is the feast day of St Columba (c.521–597), who led the Irish monastic missions to Dál Riata & the kingdoms of the Picts
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https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/
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