A Land Girl's Tale Karen Stevens Thomas Kabdebo

Thomas Kabdebo

the depth weighed up

building sites – and the competing structures of time and money

Jackie Wills

The eight poems selected include several of his signature pieces from the late 1940s through the 1970s: “Countersong to Walt Whitman”

A Land Girl's Tale Karen Stevens Thomas KabdeboI can see the disgust on the face of one neighbor when Jack, the farmer, asked to lend a man, produced a land girl. Mona Macleod worked in Kirkubrightshire during the second World War, providing the skilled labour needed on farms before mechanization. The girls were given heavy agricultural work in fields, with animals, carrying hundred weight sacks, sawing wood, felling trees, filling up rat holes. It was a tough way to grow up, but this illustrated