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Blue Diode Press, 2024. 64 pages. Paperback.
Bàrdachd a’ Bhaile Mhòir: 15 Glasgow Poems brings together the Gaelic poetry of Scotland’s largest city from the 17th to the 21st Centuries, with translations. Discover a city without milk, but plenty of liquor “that makes women and men mad as Hell”, a rowan tree that hosts a multitude of tiny creatures, and an old cinema where viewers “spat insults with the best of the Chicago mobsters”. Each of these fifteen poems is like a stop on an underground tour of Glasgow, opening up new perspectives at every destination, “a reassurance of plenty”.
Tha an leabhran seo a’ toirt sealladh dhuinn air Glaschu tro fho-inntinn nan Gaidheal agus luchd na Gàidhlig a chuireas ri a fhionn-sgeòil agus sgeulachdan gu nàdarra (agus nach ann againn’ tha fhios gun deach meòrachadh a dhèanamh, ma tha coltas “nàdarra” sam bith air cruinneachadh bàrdachd). — Shane Johnstone, Glasgow Review of Books
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