Best Scottish Poems 2008: Alexander Hutchison

Editors? Comment

Not enough poems make us laugh. ?Surprise, Surprise? did continuously. Haggis, of course, has a hallowed niche in McParnassus, Burns’ oft-incanted ode being the benchmark. It would be nice, however, next Burns Night if Alexander Hutchison’s tour de force could be heard across the land. But we do hope that he has taken the precaution of patenting many of his inspired suggestions though try as we might we cannot imagine what haggis ?clairs could possibly taste like. Or, for that matter, baked haggis Alaska.

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