{"title":"Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"scottish-literature","title":"Scottish Literature","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOur Ebooks are powered by Glassboxx\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/luath.co.uk\/pages\/ebooks-audiobooks\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eClick here to learn about our Ebooks.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book: \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat do we mean by ‘Scottish literature’?\u003cbr\u003eWhy does it matter?\u003cbr\u003eHow do we engage with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eBringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime’s experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, sets out to guide you through the varied and ever-evolving landscape of Scottish literature. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eA comprehensive and extensive work designed not only for scholars but also for the generally curious, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eScottish Literature: an introduction\u003c\/em\u003e tells the tale of Scotland’s many voices across the ages, from Celtic pre-history to modern mass media. Forsaking critical jargon, Riach journeys chronologically through individual works and writers, both the famed and the forgotten, alongside broad overviews of cultural contexts which connect texts to their own times. Expanding the restrictive canon of days gone by, Riach also sets down a new core body of ‘Scottish Literature’: key writers and works in English, Scots, and Gaelic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRanging across time and genre, \u003cem\u003eScottish Literature: an introduction\u003c\/em\u003e invites you to hear Scotland through her own words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg\u003eVideos:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sWz6NtXUQ9Y?si=6FT05LIUcMu-iN3z\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews: \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eObviously indispensable; I am learning new facts and possibilities on every page.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eNEAL ASCHERSON\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt takes women and men of prodigious faculty to advance the institution of a National Literature.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eNIYI OSUNDARE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe presiding spirit over this book is Hugh MacDiarmid…\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSTUART KELLY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScottish Literature: An Introduction, Alan Riach’s magnum opus, is all that the term implies. It is encyclopaedic, refreshing, personal and yet detached, and it has provoked me into buying Gavin Douglas’s Aeneid, The Eneados, which is a bloody good read, as is the book that prompted its purchase\u003c\/em\u003e! \u003cstrong\u003eJOHN PURSER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlan Riach’s Scottish Literature: An Introduction is excellent – incredibly comprehensive! I think it is pitched at exactly the right level for the audience it’s aimed at. I’m already well into it and am looking forward to reading the whole book\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eRONALD RENTON\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMagisterial \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA magnum opus\/tour de force\/labour of love, its impressively encyclopaedic range and lucid attention to detail are irradiated by a heart-warming enthusiasm for the subject. It conveys both the grandeur of a mountain, and the exhilaration of the climb.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSTEWART CONN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScottish Literature: An Introduction is ‘in a class of its own’ with ‘many happy provocations… Riach is a poet and a serious and intuitive, voracious, intellectual. The mirror to his mind, his writing sings and bustles with energy and daring. It ranges far and wide across the arts, nationally and internationally, and rallies the reader to be bolder… This is surely a work destined to be a landmark in Scotland’s literary history, for all time, a classic at a critical moment in its subject’s destiny.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eANDREW McNEILLIE, THE NATIONAL\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI’ve been going through Scottish Literature: An Introduction with delight, marvelling at the way you have of stating things so accessibly. You’re a gift to the reader, and your prose never gets stodgy and clunky. Your proselytising zeal is exactly what Scottish literature needs. Your refusal to bow not just to Anglocentrism but to the Anglo-Saxon supremacism of those who promote Scots only at the expense of Gaelic is a credit to you. And I really appreciated the helpful anti-elitism of your approach. The 101 places chapter rounds things off beautifully and in a most unexpected way.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePATRICK CROTTY, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF IRISH AND SCOTTISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI am just rolling up to the final pages of your book. I have relished every page and feel excited and energised by it.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDAVID HARDING, ARTIST\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI am very much enjoying your guide to Scottish literature. I dip in and out and find myself learning (many) things I didn't know and having some of my assumptions and judgements confirmed but some challenged too.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDAVID HUTCHISON, PROFESSOR IN MEDIA POLICY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScottish Literature: an introduction is a huge achievement and a great treat for all of Scotland. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHELEN BELLANY, ARTIST\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCongratulations. Scottish Literature: an introduction is terrific, a significant book for Scotland and the wider world. It’s a mighty tome, yet the language trips along lightly with great ease for the reader, refreshingly accessible, and packed with fascinating treasures. It’s so inclusive, setting up a feeling of community by frequently quoting other voices and creating a rounded and hugely positive sense of Scotland as a nation. A marvellous depth and breadth of literature is presented, always within a political and cultural context. This is a book that should be on shelves all over the world. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGERDA STEVENSON\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\" data-page-width=\"427\" data-page-height=\"640\"\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yumpu.com\/en\/embed\/view\/xdPZNUGKLmIgiuQV\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/5573\/7238\/files\/ALAN_RIACH.png?v=1719571473\" style=\"margin-right: 20px; float: left;\"\u003eALAN RACH \u003cspan\u003ewas born in Airdrie in 1957. He studied English literature at Cambridge University from 1976-79. He completed his PhD in the Department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University in 1986. His academic career has included positions as a post-doctoral research fellow, senior lecturer, Associate Professor and Pro-Dean in the Faculty of Arts, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand 1986-2000. 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At the forefront of the poet’s consciousness here is the legacy faced by the next generation. In many ways, as the title implies, the book is a tribute to youth. Its scope is wide and deep, profoundly personal as well as political, employing a range of poetic forms, including a virtuosic libretto in verse, a contemporary retelling of Coleridge’s epic poem \u003cem\u003eThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u003c\/em\u003e set during the refugee crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews: \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection by Gerda Stevenson is always a literary event of significance. Her poems are vigilant, prudent, and lucid, full of lyricism and wit. Her Mariner, included here, is a brilliant libretto. There is both intimacy and intricacy in equal measure, with her vast sweep of vision. She is a visionary who sings the world alive. Between grace and grit, Scots and Gaelic echoes, there is breathless brio as we bear witness to her stirring souls with awe and awakening. She is indeed a ‘remembrancer’ (unlike the Westminster sort), of the highest order – of poets worldwide. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMENNA ELFYN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA beautiful collection – moving, thoughtful, challenging (and occasionally funny!), altogether so powerful \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDR MICHEL BRYNE, University of Glasgow.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTomorrow’s Feast is a collection of striking compassion. Stevenson’s previous collection, Quines, had a particular agenda in celebrating the women of Scotland; this collection by contrast shows what moves her to poetry in her own times. While recognising our place in the ‘terrible chain’ of atrocities enacted on humanity and nature, Tomorrow’s Feast, as the title implies, is entirely life-affirming, finding grace in the most extreme situations. Stevenson uses a range of different voices, always pitch-perfect. A tight weaving of scenes lets images take on symbolic weight. There is also a delight in words, and a streak of black humour. The libretto Mariner, based on Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, held me spellbound in the way it echoes that great poem in narrative, rhythm and vocabulary while giving it a new reading as a plea for justice, for humanity and nature in the face of our current refugee and ecological crisis. It is a tour de force\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eMEG BATEMAN.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI was mesmerized by the depth and breadth of Tomorrow’s Feast. Reading this poignant commentary on life in today’s world, Stevenson’s third collection, I was yet again enthralled by how she links seamlessly our past with our present, employing different poetic formats such as Haiku to sprechgesang in various languages from English, Scots and Gaelic in striking poetry. Although her poems face head on many challenges of life in today’s world – from Covid 19 to climate change or the war in Syria – the collection leaves the reader with an infinitely hopeful note. The poems subtly do something else as well – they educate the reader in art and literary history, brilliantly executed in the verse libretto retelling Samuel Coleridge’s epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDR SYLVIA WARNECKE, The Open University.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume of poetry is fabulous. It is rich with language, compassion, love and joy, sadness and grief. It is all life. Written by writer actress and director Gerda Stevenson who's voice can be heard as you read it. Thoroughly recommended! \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSCOTTIE ANDERSON\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVideos:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aZ4eT9nXPZM?si=_vnfezOyK_85R1bp\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iRuH3rH8JNI?si=X33T6PC6TO_y4ne7\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-page-height=\"640\" data-page-width=\"410\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.yumpu.com\/en\/embed\/view\/QSevTILp764dN1bm\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 20px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/5573\/7238\/files\/GERDA_STEVENSON.png?v=1719583581\"\u003eGERDA STEVENSON \u003cspan\u003eis an award-winning writer, actor, theatre director and singer-songwriter. She has worked on stage, television, radio, film and in opera, throughout the UK and abroad. She is a recipient of Scottish Arts Council and Creative Scotland writers’ bursaries, won the YES Arts Festival Poetry Challenge in 2013, and the Robert Tannahill Poetry Prize in 2017. Her stage play \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFederer Versus Murray\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, directed by the author, toured to New York in 2012 and was published there by Salmagundi. In 2014 she was nominated as Scots Singer of the Year for the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards, following the launch of an album of her own songs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Touches Da\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ey. She has written extensively for radio, including original plays and dramatisations of Scottish novels. Her first poetry collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf This Were Real\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Smokestack Books, 2013), was published in 2017 by Edizioni Ensemble, Rome, as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSe Questo Fosse Vero\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, translated into Italian by Laura Maniero. Gerda wrote the biographical introduction and a series of poems for the book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInside \u0026amp; Out: The Art of Christian Small\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which she also edited (Lyne Press, 2018, now published by Scotland Street Press, 2019). Her most recent book is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdinburgh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a collaboration with Scottish landscape photographer Allan Wright, for which she wrote the introduction and a sequence of twenty-two poems (Allan Wright Photographic, 2019). 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Fhuair e an MA aige bho Oilthigh Ghlaschu agus thug e a-mach ollamhachd aig Colaiste na Trianaide Baile Àtha Cliath. Tha e air obrachadh do dh’Ionad Bàrdachd Sheumais Heaney, Oilthigh na Banrighinn Beul Feirste, Colaiste na Trianaide Baile Àtha Cliath, Colaiste Oilthigh Baile Àtha Cliath agus Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, far an robh e na sgrìobhaiche air mhuinntearas. Bha e ag obair cuideachd mar neach-naidheachd airson a’ BhBC, agus tha e air sgrìobhadh do dhiofar phrògraman aithriseach airson telebhisean agus rèidio, a’ nochdadh ann an cuid dhiubh. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTha Pàdraig air iomadh phàipear agus leabhar fhoillseachadh mu nua-bhàrdachd, gu h-àraidh mu bhàrdachd na h-Alba agus na h-Èireann. Bha an ollamhachd aige stèidhichte air buaidh Uilleim Wordsworth air Seumas Heaney. San latha an-diugh, bidh e a’ teagasg ann an roinn na Beurla aig Oilthigh Chill Rìmhinn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOriginally from the Isle of Lewis, Peter Mackay has an MA from Glasgow University and a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin. He has worked at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, where he was writer in residence. He has also worked as a Broadcast Journalist and television news producer for the BBC, and written or appeared in various documentaries on radio and television.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeter has published widely on contemporary poetry, particularly Irish and Scottish poetry. His PhD was on the influence of William Wordsworth on Seamus Heaney. 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His primary focus is politics in the UK and Scotland, about which he has written numerous books, including in-depth studies of the Labour Party and SNP, and the creation and progress of the Scottish Parliament. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eHe is author of the best-selling and acclaimed\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.luath.co.uk\/politics-and-current-issues\/caledonian-dreaming-the-quest-for-a-different-scotland?rq=caledonian%20dreaming\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaledonian Dreaming: The Quest for a Different Scotland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, published by Luath Press in 2014; \u003cem\u003eScotland the Bold: How the Nation has Changing and Why There is No Going Back\u003c\/em\u003e; and co-author of the definitive study of Scottish Labour, \u003cem\u003eThe Strange Death of Labour Scotland\u003c\/em\u003e. He co-edited \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.luath.co.uk\/productsa\/a-nation-changed-the-snp-and-scotland-ten-years-on-66sfw?rq=a%20nation%20changed\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Nation Changed?: The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e with Simon Barrow, published by Luath Press in 2017, which is the only study of the SNP’s ten years in office. He has also published the first-ever study of the Labour Party and Britishness: \u003cem\u003eThe People’s Flag and the Union Jack\u003c\/em\u003e, in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eForthcoming publications include \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.luath.co.uk\/product\/a-better-nation\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Better Nation: The Challenges of Scottish Independence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(with Simon barrow – Luath Press, 2022), which outlines approaches to the independence debate which are respectful of different views, doubts and ambiguities, asking what kind of society we want to create and how Scotland may want to govern herself. Gerry writes and appears in the media regularly, as well as speaking at events, discussions and conferences in Scotland, the UK and internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/5573\/7238\/files\/Simon_Barrow_daf3b386-11a4-479d-b164-01ff74a6fe5d.png?v=1719415178\" style=\"margin-right: 20px; float: left;\"\u003eSIMON BARROW is Director of the beliefs, ethics and politics think tank Ekklesia. From 2000 to 2005 he was assistant general secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, the official ecumenical body. He has written and contributed to numerous books, recently editing \u003cem\u003eScotland 2021\u003c\/em\u003e (with Mike Small – Bella Caledonia\/Ekklesia, 2016), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.luath.co.uk\/politics-and-current-issues\/a-nation-changed-the-snp-and-scotland-ten-years-on\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Nation Changed? The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(with Gerry Hassan – Luath Press, 2017) and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.luath.co.uk\/politics-and-current-issues\/scotland-the-brave\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eScotland the Brave? Twenty Years of Change and the Future of the Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(with Gerry Hassan – Luath Press, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eForthcoming publications include \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.luath.co.uk\/product\/a-better-nation\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Better Nation: The Challenges of Scottish Independence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e (\u003c\/em\u003ewith Gerry Hassan – Luath Press 2022). He is also co-founder and chair of the Scottish Football Supporters Association, and lives in Leith, having relocated to Scotland from England in 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Luath Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42748691251350,"sku":"9781910022153","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":42749446226070,"sku":"9781910022221","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/5573\/7238\/products\/9781910022153.jpg?v=1694699524"},{"product_id":"north-end-of-eden","title":"North End of Eden","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA polar projection changes foo we figure oot wir world. Shetland isna banished tae a box i da Moray Firt or left oot aa tagidder - ta scale up da rest - but centre stage.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristine De Luca's poetry creates a sense of the beauty and spareness of Shetland, the contradictory space and smallness of the island; and a feeling for people living on the far side of Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems explore concepts of identity, home and belonging, and of our connection with the land. Drawing inspiration from medicine, history and religious and pagan legends, from modern and ancient sources, De Luca writes with equal fluency in both English and Shetlandic. This book awakens its reader to the beauty of the language and the landscape of the most northern part of Britain; yet there is no sense of isolation. She explores the folktales and values home-grown in Shetland in terms of the wider world, from Russia to Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/5573\/7238\/files\/Christine_De_Luca.png?v=1719395959\" style=\"margin-right: 20px; float: left;\"\u003eCHRISTINE DE LUCA writes in English and Shaetlan (Shetlandic), her mother tongue. She was appointed Edinburgh's Makar (laureate) for 2014-2017. She has had eight poetry collections published, several of which have won awards. 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From the humblest but-and-ben to the grandest castle, the nation has a great tradition of celebration and commemoration through poetry. 100 Favourite Scottish Poems – incorporating the nation’s best-loved poems as selected in a BBC Radio Scotland listeners’ poll – ranges from ballads to Burns, from ‘Proud Maisie’ to ‘The Queen of Sheba’, and from ‘Cuddle Doon’ to ‘The Jeelie Piece Song’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by Stewart Conn, poet and first recipient of the Institute of Contemporary Scotland’s Iain Crichton Smith Award for services to literature (2006).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in association with the Scottish Poetry Library, a unique national resource and advocate for the enriching art of poetry. Through its collections, publications, education and outreach work, the spl aims to make the pleasures of poetry available as widely as possible. 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This lovely little book ranges from Dunbar to Douglas Dunn, taking in just about all the major and most of the minor Scottish poets of the centuries by means of their most memorable writing.\u003c\/i\u003e THE \u003cstrong\u003eSCOTSMAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is... a highly varied collection and one that should fulfill Conn's hopes of whetting the reader's appetite... this is both a taster and a volume of substance.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e  THE HERALD GUIDE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ea richly diverse collection of poems in English, Scots, Gaelic and Shetlandic (…) They reflect not only the many traditions on which Scottish poetry has drawn, but also the range and variety of contemporary Scottish poetry, which forms the bulk of the collection.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eNORTHWORDS NOW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book might be better called 50 Favourites and 50 Surprises, and that’s no bad thing!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/5573\/7238\/files\/Stewart_Conn.png?v=1719395050\" style=\"margin-right: 20px; float: left;\"\u003eSTEWART CONN \u003cspan\u003ewas born in Glasgow, grew up in Ayrshire and for many years has lived in Edinburgh shere, until 1992 he was based as the head of BBC Scotland's radio drama department. In 2002 he was appointed the capital's first makar, or poet laureate. His poetry has been widely anthologised and translated. He has received awards from, amonc others, the Scottish Arts Council, the Society of Authors and the Poetry Book Society. Besides regularly appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival he has participated in poetry festivals from Aberdeen to Zagreb. 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Scots have ample opportunity to let rip with old favourites on Burns Night, St Andrew's Day, or at ceilidhs and festivals. Whatever your choice, this wide-ranging selection will give you and your audience (even if it's only the mirror) hours of pleasure and enjoyment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/5573\/7238\/files\/GORDON_JARVIE.png?v=1719417109\" style=\"margin-right: 20px; float: left;\"\u003eGORDON JARVIE began his career as an English teacher, later working as a publisher and writer. His books include The Bloomsbury Grammar Guide (2nd edn 2007) and other language titles; Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales (2nd edn 2007); and The Scottish Reciter, which this collection replaces and updates. He has edited various other anthologies, and with his wife has written several Scottie Books for children. 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These poems question what it is to be both British and Indian, drawing on the author’s memories and experiences to celebrate and uncover an ‘Indian’ self.\u003cstrong\u003e SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/5573\/7238\/files\/TESSA_RANFORD.png?v=1719571158\" style=\"margin-right: 20px; float: left;\"\u003eTESSA RANSFORD was born in India, educated in Scotland and has lived all her adult life in Scotland apart from eight years working in Pakistan in the 1960s. 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These Dumfries and Galloway poets, free in their own inimitable styles and approaches, are bound together by the unique culture of Scotland. Their poems help to raise the wall of that culture in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe poets Rab Wilson has gathered in this anthology represent and important and often neglected strand in contemporary Scottish poetry. Native Scots-speaking poets whose chosen language is distinct from English and expressive beyond the capacities of that sister-language, they are committed to their country, their place and the people who inhabit the world beside them. 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Above all, they have the immediacy of personal engagement in the battle to save Scotland from lapsing back into its old endemic vulnerability. \"To Win Or Lose It All\" gives today's reader a unique chance to compare the passions that divided a badly devolved Britain then and now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eROBIN BELL is an award winning poet and documentary writer who lived in New York and London for many years before returning to his native Scotland. He is probably best-known for Strathinver: A Portrait Album 1945-1953, a dramatised version of which won a Sony Award for Best British Radio Feature and Documentary. It was hailed by David Wade in The Times as 'Scotland's answer, and a confident one, to Under Milk Wood''. 'Occasionally, a book appears which alters the whole body of poetry of the relevant country and beyond. This is such a book.' Tom Scott, Books In Scotland Bittersweet Within My Heart, his translations of the French poems of Mary, Queen of Scots, was described by Van Hennessy in the Daily Mail as 'The most moving and intimate of all royal autobiographical writing. Historically, they are sensational. 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Chaidh e a dh’Oilthigh Obar Dheathain, far an tug e a-mach a bhith na dhotair ann an 1988. Eadar 1990 agus 1992 choisinn e teisteanasan ann an Cuspairean na Gàidhealtachd is nam Meadhanan aig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. Bidh Màrtainn a’ roinn a bheatha-obrach eadar dotaireachd, sgrìobhadh is aithris sgeulachdan. Tha e an-diugh a’ fuireachd ann an Dùn Èideann le a bhean is an dithis chloinne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnn an 2003, bhuannaich e duais a’ chiad leabhar aig Comann Crann na h-Alba leis a’ chruinneachadh de sgeulachdan goirid aige Ath-Aithne agus fhuair fear eile de na nobhailean aige, \u003cem\u003eGymnippers Diciadian\u003c\/em\u003e, air a’ ghearr-liosa airson leabhar na bliadhna ann an 2005. San Iuchar 2018, thug e a-mach nobhail ùr air a bheil Samhradh '78.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMartin MacIntyre was born in 1965 to a South Uist father and Glaswegian mother, and was brought up in Lenzie. In 1988 he graduated from the University of Aberdeen in medicine, and has attained qualifications in Business and Gaidhealtachd Studies at Sabhal Mor Ostaig. Martin divides his work-time between medicine, writing and storytelling. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife Annmarie and their two children, Sorcha and Iain Finlay.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHis previous publications include Ath-Aithne (Re-acquaintance), a collection of short stories which won The Saltire Society First Book Award in 2003 and Gymnippers Dicidian (Wednesday Gymnippers), an Edinburgh-based Gaelic novel shortlisted for The Saltire Society Book of the Year 2005. He has just released his new novel, Samhradh '78.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row sqs-row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col sqs-col-12 span-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule\" data-block-type=\"47\" id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1520100356166_6657\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlogs:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/luath.co.uk\/blogs\/gaelic-blog\/blog-mhartainn-leabhraichean-agus-molaidhean\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/luath.co.uk\/cdn\/shop\/articles\/Screenshot_2024-11-19_at_20.07.59.png?v=1732047083\u0026amp;width=800\" alt=\"Blog Mhàrtainn\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Luath Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42807606050966,"sku":"9781905222575","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/5573\/7238\/products\/9781905222575.jpg?v=1697647706"},{"product_id":"dont-mention-this-to-anyone","title":"Don’t Mention This to Anyone","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003eInspired by the rediscovery of an Urdu phrasebook, Ransford takes the reader on a journey to explore the differences between ‘then’ and ‘now’, linking the reader to a world now lost to most. 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These poems question what it is to be both British and Indian, drawing on the author’s memories and experiences to celebrate and uncover an ‘Indian’ self. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSCOTTISH REVIW OF BOOKS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/5573\/7238\/files\/TESSA_RANFORD.png?v=1719571158\" style=\"margin-right: 20px; float: left;\"\u003eTESSA RANSFORD was born in India, educated in Scotland and has lived all her adult life in Scotland apart from eight years working in Pakistan in the 1960s. She has published many books of poetry since the mid-70s and has been translated and published in Germany, Austria, France, Denmark and Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTessa founded the Scottish Poetry Library in 1984 and was director there until its establishment in new premises in 1999. She has an honorary degree for services to Scottish literature from the University of Paisley (now the University of the West of Scotland) and in 2000 she was awarded an OBE for her services to the SPL. Tessa was also founder\/organiser of the School of Poets poetry workshop (1981-99) and editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLines Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epoetry magazine for ten years. 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Written on the breath, her poetry captures the melody of everyday life in all its sweetness and discord. These poems – perceptive, lyrical and assured – represent an inspiring triumph over severe dyslexia. Full of imagery that is rich and startling, they draw from the wellspring of personal experience to touch on universal themes and contemporary issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnita Govan performs her poetry with\u003cem\u003e ‘radiance, warmth and depth of feeling – it’s all superb stuff, sensually presented’ \u003c\/em\u003e(edinburghguide.com). 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Richard Price confesses to being \"uneasy\" about responding to Ungaretti's \u003cem\u003eLevante\u003c\/em\u003e, but comes up with a neat solution, creating a poem that celebrates the innovative structure of the original but is simultaneously in defiance of everything Ungaretti would come to stand for. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROGER COX, Scotland on Sunday\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-page-height=\"640\" data-page-width=\"480\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.yumpu.com\/en\/embed\/view\/hk7uzB6AUjRJ8VnC\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGUISEPPE UNGARETTI (1888–1970) is one of Europe’s greatest modernist poets. He was also a writer, literary critic, journalist and university professor in Italy and in Brazil. He was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, to an Italian family from Tuscany. At the age of 24, he moved to Paris, where he associated with prominent artists of the European avant garde. Ungaretti fought on the Italian front from 1915 to 1917, taking part in some of the bloodiest episodes of the Great War, during which time much of his greatest poetry was written. Ungaretti later worked as a correspondent for Il Popolo d’Italia, a political daily paper founded by Benito Mussolini. In 1936, he moved to Brazil, where he took up a teaching post at São Paulo University. He continued to teach, travel and write throughout his life. The 21 poems by Ungaretti in the present anthology were selected from the collection, L’Allegria (The Joy, 1931). The original title of the book was Allegria di naufragi (The Joy of Shipwrecks), first published in 1919. This collection in turn included, in one of its sections, a tiny group of lyrical poems entitled Il Porto Sepolto (The Buried Harbour) written in the trenches during the First World War on ‘scraps of paper salvaged from the packaging of bullets’. The latter had been published separately in 1916 in only 80 copies. The 1919 volume underwent many corrections and additions before the 1931 publication, which itself also underwent a series of small changes, until in 1942 a final text appeared. The Joy, like Ungaretti’s entire critical essays, prose and translations, is collected in several volumes published by Mondadori, entitled Vita d’un uomo (The Life of a Man).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKATHERINE LOCKTON is a poet. Her work has been published in publications such as \u003cem\u003eMagma, Rising, Morning Star, Northwords Now, The Dark Horse, Ink, Sweat \u0026amp; Tears, \u003c\/em\u003eand in\u003cem\u003e The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood\u003c\/em\u003e. Her poem ‘Reading my Skin’ is due out in Bloodaxe’s Raving Beauties: Hallelujah for 50ft Women in April 2015. In 2013 Katherine was awarded the Inaugural Travel Bursary by The Saltire Society and British Council Scotland. In 2014 she was shortlisted for Girton College’s Jane Martin Poetry Prize and won first place in the Outstanding in the Field Poetry Competition judged by Martin Figura.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCARLO PIROZZI is a Research Fellow at the Italian Department of St Andrews University, working on the ahrc-funded project, ‘Transnationalising Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures’ (2014–16). His current research focuses on cultural translation and the visual history of the Italian community in Scotland. Pirozzi’s other main research interest is in 20th-century Italian literature, with his doctorate on the poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti. He published a monograph on one of the most influential poets of the Florentine Hermetic literary movement (Incontrando B. lungo il nastro di Möebius. Dialoghi con Piero Bigongiari, Rome: Bulzoni, 2007). In recent years, he has co-edited two books, the first focusing on the Italian language and its implications in a transnational context, within the emigrant Italian community (Lingua e identità a 150 anni dall’Unità d’Italia. Edited by Matteo Brera and Carlo Pirozzi, Florence: Cesati, 2012), and the second an unpublished photographic diary of the journey of an Italo-Scots traveling to Cassino, in Italy, after the Second World War (No-Where-Next | War-Diaspora-Origin. Dominic Scappaticcio. A Journey (1946–1947). Edited by Federica G. Pedriali and Carlo Pirozzi. Photographic catalogue edited by Nicola Milazzo. Catalogue of the Montecassino Exhibition, Edinburgh Gadda Prize, 4–6 May 2013, Ravenna: Longo, 2013). In addition to this, he is involved in initiating and developing creative interdisciplinary projects involving universities, public and private cultural institutions as well as collaborations between artists from Scotland and Italy. In 2014, he won a Special Jury Prize in the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Short Film Challenge for the film Coral Red, which he wrote and codirected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Luath Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42807629840534,"sku":"9781910021798","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/5573\/7238\/products\/9781910021798.jpg?v=1697648080"},{"product_id":"love-and-revolution","title":"Love and Revolution","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove and Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e: a poetic journey through political ideals, love, loss, and life in the Western Isles. From the best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eSoil and Soul\u003c\/em\u003e comes this much-awaited first collection of poetry. 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