As is evident in this collection, Myles Campbell is aware of the division between community poetry and personal poetry. The two have always co-existed, but there never used to be such a gap between them.
A metaphysical dialogue in verse between the Irish poet Diarmuid Johnson and the Scottish poet Maoilios Caimbeul. Diarmuid writes in Irish Gaelic and Maoilios replies in Scottish Gaelic.
A new volume with commentary of a sequence of love poems which arguably constitutes the major achievement of Scottish Gaelic poetry in the twentieth century.
Sandy NicDhòmhnaill Jones is a versatile and intriguing new voice in Gaelic poetry. She has a home in South Uist and deep affinities with the Hebrides.
In 1940, in Barra in the Outer Hebrides, an 18-year-old woman, Flòraidh, is persuaded to leave her island home when she learns that her stepmother intends to marry her off to the local shopkeeper. She follows her enigmatic friend Lavinia to the city and changes her identity to Laura, like a butterfly, leaving her chrysalis behind, as they join the war effort.
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