About: James Robertson

On 31st January 2020, the day Boris Johnson claims to be his date for 'getting Brexit done', Kettillonia will be publishing Brexit Tears, a collaboration between the renowned artist Calum Colvin and the equally renowned poet Robert Crawford. In this book, Colvin's photographic images combine with Crawford's words to produce a witty, incisive and hard-hitting…

In Finding Out the Rest: History and Scotland Now James Robertson explores how the passage of time has an effect not only on individuals' views of their own lives, but also on the way a community or country perceives its history. The constitutional position of Scotland has been in flux for the last twenty years,…

We have had a small quantity of the first print-run of Praise of Ben Dorain returned to us, so this title is back in stock. However, it has proved very popular so may not be available for long.

From 7th February until 1st April 2017, including during the StAnza Poetry Festival (1st-5th March), the Byre Theatre in St Andrews is hosting an exhibition of Simon Manfield's original artwork for Orcadians: Seven Impromptus. The images are on display on the Level 4 gallery of the Byre, and the exhibition is free. There is also…

Alan Riach and Bill Innes read extracts from the poem, in English and the original Gaelic, at Loch Eynort and Kildonan in South Uist.

Listen to Alan Riach, in conversation with Colin Waters of the Scottish Poetry Library, discussing his modern English translation of the great 18th-century poem by Alexander MacDonald

An interesting essay, published in The National, by Alan Riach (one of our authors) on the influence of Gerard Manley Hopkins on Hugh MacDiarmid and George Mackay Brown (another of our authors) can be read here.