About: James Robertson

We are pleased to announce that, to mark the 250th anniversary of his death, Robert Fergusson's Selected Poems (edited and introduced by James Robertson) has been reprinted by Birlinn Ltd in 2024. This edition was first published in 2000, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Fergusson's birth, and has been through several reprints. Fergusson was…

As per the previous news item, we now have these two publications back in stock.

We're delighted to announce that we are reprinting Alan Riach's splendid English renditions, with the original Gaelic texts, of 'The Birlinn of Clanranald' and 'Praise of Ben Dorain'. These have been very popular pamphlets and will be in stock in early February 2023, so check back here soon.

Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, praises 'this entertaining mini-collection... A miniaturised body of classical learning for our own age.'

Coming soon, a new publication from Robert Crawford.The concrete poems of Classical Texts take the culture of twenty-first-century texting, with its delight in tiny verbal messages, and fuse it with slivers of ancient Greek and Latin textuality – stories of heroes, myths, and gods. The texts distil narratives down to an essence: usually a single word.‘Witty, absorbing…

This link takes you to an event hosted by Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow on 4th February 2021.

Short but sweet mention of Brexit Tears (exhibition and book) here:

You can read an article on the Brexit Tears exhibition and book, which includes interviews with Robert Crawford and Calum Colvin, here:

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…