Review of Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel. …

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Review of Maggie Fergusson’s biography, The Life of George Mackay Brown. …

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Reviews of Picking Brambles by Des Dillon, Modern Scottish Women Poets by Dorothy McMillan and Michael Byrne, and issue 102/3 of Chapman. …

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Reviews of new editions of the collected poems of two giants of British poetry – Anne Stevenson and Norman MacCaig – normally a reason to be cheerful about poetry and poetry publishing. …

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Reviews of poetry collections by William Soutar, Tessa Ransford Margaret Gillies Brown and Kenneth C. Steven. …

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Reviews of Today Tomorrow, a collection of George Bruce’s Work; The Tip of my Tongue by Robert Crawford, and John Duffy’s The Constancy of Stone. …

More…That Other Universe

Reviews of new poetry collections by Paula Jennings, Alison Brackenberry, John Burnside, Mark Doty and Alan Spence. He also looks at the second issue of Fras, an occasional literary journal. …

More…Singing Lucifer and Other New Poetry

Reviews of Kathleen Jamie’s The Tree House, Jackie Kay’s Life Mask and Roderick Watson’s into the blue wavelengths. …

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To celebrate the publication of the Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown, Textualities surveys the writing career of this great Orcadian writer. …

More…For the Islands I Sing

Review of A Feather on a Finger, a collection of poems by the late Matthew Ewart. …

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Review of Muriel Spark’s collected poems, published in 2004. …

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Reviews of Dead Readhead by Tracey Herd, Gerry Loose’s Eitgal and Today Tomorrow by the late George Bruce. …

More…The Abbot of Skellig Michael

Reviews of two books edited by Duncan Glen, A Memory of Fields by Mark Ogle, Renfrewshire in Old Photogrpahs, The Jewel Box – Contemporary Scottish Poems and Spilt Colours by Dorothy Alexander. …

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Reviews of a selection of books by Joan Lingard. …

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Review of An Oidhche mus do Sheòl Sinn by Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul. …

More…The Night Before We Sailed