After her adventures with Bonnie Prince Charlie in the aftermath of Culloden, Flora MacDonald emigrated to North Carolina, married, and got caught up in the War of Independence. This is an a... read more
The Scottish Highlands are facing climate chaos too, despite being so far north, and its effects are already being felt. Crumley's meditations on the seasons in one volume.
From London in the Swinging Sixties to a hippie retreat in the Outer Hebrides: she and her partner travelled - slowly - by horse and wagon. She gave up music, disillusioned with the pop indu... read more
An excellent collection that includes over three hundred poems ranging from the early medieval period to the C21st. Three finer editors would be hard to imagine.
Explores what happens to places where people no longer live: Chernobyl, swathes of Detroit, Caribbean volcanoes, Scottish mining regions - redemptive, reflective.
Two Scots lads have a lovely weekend in Manchester in 1986. 30 years later, a phone rings: as they remember the euphoria of their youth, the costs of life are revealed.
RR has won or been shortlisted for every prize going... 'The world of poetry is small and currently polarised: it's often either simplistic or incomprehensible. I find myself in the middle, ... read more