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1926–2014 Scotland

Alastair Reid (22 March 1926 – 21 September 2014) was a Scottish poet and a scholar of South American literature. He was known for his light-hearted style of poems and for his translations of South American poets Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda.

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It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet, when larks rose on long thin strings of singing and the air shifted with the shimmer of actual angels.

The Borders loom in my mind as a small archipelago of stony towns in a placid sea of grass, woods and furrows, small, bristling islands in a state of armed truce with one another, with their village satellites, their lumbering bus-ferries, their pugnacious localisms.

... St Andrews, that placid centre of non-learning.

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