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.
A book of longer poems by Christopher Whyte. He has published four novels in English, and translated four books of poetry from the Russian of Marina Tsvetaeva.
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.
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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