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New pamphlet on the interaction of Scotland’s past with its present and future.

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,…

Praise of Ben Dorain back in stock

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.

Orcadians at St Andrews

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 from the Birlinn of Clanranald

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

Alan Riach on his new version of The Birlinn of Clanranald

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

George Mackay Brown and Gerard Manley Hopkins

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.

Review of the Birlinn of Clanranald

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.

Orcadians: Seven Impromptus by George Mackay Brown

Coming soon from Kettillonia (June 2016), a beautiful new edition, in a limited print, of one of George Mackay Brown's most closely observed studies of the people, land and seascapes of Orkney. More than sixty years after it was written, it has inspired a magnificent set of images by Simon Manfield. We are proud to reproduce both poem and illustrations,…

Alan Riach discusses his translations of Praise of Ben Dorain and The Birlinn of Clanranald in ‘The National’

Make sure you read Alan Raich's detailed account of his reasons for undertaking new translations of Praise of Ben Dorain and The Birlinn of Clanranald in The National, and then buy the pamphlets here. Praise of Ben Dorain is a register of loss: not a praise poem for a chief, hero, leader or clan, but a…