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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.…

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…

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…