MacGillivray reads from The Nine of Diamonds from like a bosch song Watch Video
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Description: MacGillivray reads extracts from her new poetry collection, The Nine of Diamonds, a book in nine parts which plays the Butcher – the Duke of Cumberland – in a Gaelic version of the ghost gamble. Given his command on the back of a nine of diamonds – the Curse of Scotland – that the Highlanders should all be slaughtered, the persecution of Jacobites after the battle of Culloden was one of the worst atrocities carried out on British soil. Written on Skye and in Edinburgh in the run-up to t