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Campbell Perry
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Scotsman based in Bannau Brycheiniog
Trainee Welshman
Broad experience in Education (senior management) & Mental Health (clinical lead)
Interested in creativity, wellbeing & environment.
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‘outwith’: preposition: outside; beyond. A term unique to Scotland.

Revising my visa essay,
applying for three more years
here, I read my own scribbled words:

Comparable opportunities for critical study
do not exist outwith Scotland…

—Katie Ailes, “Outwith”
Glasgow Women Poets, Four-em Press 2016
Outwith Katie Ailes ‘outwith’: preposition: outside; beyond. A term unique to Scotland. Revising my visa essay, applying for three more years here, I read my own scribbled words: Comparable opportunities for critical study do not exist outwith Scotland. Outwith: a term unfamiliar, yet scrawled in my own hand, doubtlessly mine, and I wonder: I came here all rude American brass, all trash can, fanny pack, Where’s the castle? Then Glasgow rolled itself under my tongue, a grey marble lolling my mouth open with Os: Glasgow, Kelvingrove, going to Tesco, then thistling my speech wi sleekit lisps, wee packets a crisps, my lips like the lids of those glass bottles of sand I used to collect from every beach: my mouth a shore holding each grain that altered the flow of my speech, my pen flowing ‘s’ into the cursive waves of ‘socialised,’ ‘civilised,’ ‘acclimatised,’ answering Aye! by accident then smiling. I may be from out but I am now with.
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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