Poetry

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Orcadians: Seven Impromptus

A limited edition publication containing George Mackay Brown's poem 'Orcadians: Seven Impromptus', illustrated by Simon Manfield, and with essays by the artist and Simon Hall,…
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Smoke – A Poem Cycle

Jenni Daiches's thought-provoking, intensely humane sequence is a meditation on her Jewish inheritance. The poems move effortlessly between personal reflection and history, and are replete…
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The Gravy Star

Extracts from this extraordinary novel, set in Glasgow and beyond. MacDonald's main character Farquhar McLay leads a traumatised existence beneath the streets of the city,…
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Mr and Mrs Philpott on Holiday at Auchterawe & Other Poems

Meet the Philpotts, a perfectly ordinary couple whose ordinary lives are transformed into a series of small miracles in the course of this beautifully crafted…
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Praise of Ben Dorain

Duncan Ban MacIntyre’s long poem in praise of the great mountain of Ben Dorain in Argyll, is one of the finest achievements of Gaelic literature,…
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ROCK IS WATER or A History of the Theories of Rain