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I WAS about to slide down a hill when the strangeness of my situation struck me: A poem had brought me here. - Scotland Travel Guide - Jeff Gordinier for The New York Times - 7 October 2011

The poem had stayed with me since I’d first encountered it. Where was this strange island that seemed to promise both renewal and erasure? Even in the age of Google Earth I could find out very little about Luing, other than that its name was pronounced “ling” and that it qualified as the international headquarters for a prized breed of cattle. Now and then I would walk into a bookstore and flip through travel guides; Luing didn’t appear on most of the maps.

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Don Paterson Recites His Poem, 'Luing' - Video Library - The New York Times 7 October 2011

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http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/10/07/travel/100000001097035/poet-don-patterson-reads-luing-.html