Glasgow 5th March 1971 is a vibrant poem using graphic language, to depict an incident of gratuitous violence on a young man and his girl, who have been deliberately pushed through a plate glass window in order to facilitate two youths to steal from the display. The poet's description, her legs "spurts arterial blood/ over her wet-look white coat." The imagery of these serious injuries is frightening and the blood spurting as if from a hosepipe over the white coat increases the horror. The young man's injuries, to his face "bristling with fragments of glass" leaves nothing to the imagination. This creates in the reader feelings...