Literature
The poet W. S. Graham's later work powerfully evokes his childhood in and around Greenock. In "Loch Thom", included in Implements in their Places, published in 1977, the loch becomes the focus of his memories:
The curlew's cry travelling still
Kills me fairly. In front of me
The grouse flurry and settle.
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