For the Times (London), Gerard Carruthers, editor of a new collection of Scottish Poems, selected his top ten Scottish poems not by the famous Robert Burns.One poem on his list:
Liz Lochhead, "Rapunzstiltskin"Read another Scottish poem not by Robert Burns.
A feminist poem that is indignant and riotously funny at the same time.
& just when our maiden had got
good & used to her isolation,
stopped daily expecting to be rescued.
had come almost to love her tower.
along comes This Prince
with absolutely
all the wrong answers…
--Marshal Zeringue
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