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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…