Ronald Black's perceptive review, in The Bottle Imp ezine, of Alan Riach's English version of the great Gaelic poem, can be read here.
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Sair Heid City
Another publishing first: extracts from But n Ben A Go-Go, as far as we know the only science fiction novel written entirely in Scots. In…Read more ... -
The Birlinn of Clanranald
Kettillonia is proud and delighted to be publishing this work, which is a complementary volume to Alan Riach’s version of that other epic of 18th-century…Read more ... -
Scottish Faust: Poems and ballads of eldritch lore.
Writing in both Scots and English, Tom Hubbard revisits the Faust legend and gives it a Scottish accent. The ballad tradition is strongly present as the dusty-foot…Read more ... -
A Rising Fever
In this meticulously crafted sequence Ian McDonough addresses the constant bombardment of words and information that we are all subjected to - and makes sense…Read more ... -
Spalebone Days
Six finely written reminiscences which capture the smells, colours, sights and sounds of Stockbridge in Edinburgh in the 1950s, by poet Jim C. Wilson. Whether recalling…Read more ...