This collection, covering 500 years of transgressive Gaelic poetry with new English translations, breaks the mould for anthologies of Gaelic verse. It offers poems that are erotic, rude, seditious and transgressive; that deal with love, sex, the body, politics and violent passion; and that are by turns humorous, disturbing, shocking and enlightening. In scholarly introductions in Gaelic and English the editors give contexts for the creation, transmission...

This is a collection of the best Scottish love poems. Traditional Scottish verse mixes with great literature as 'Bonny Barbara Allan' and 'Jock o'Hazeldean' rub shoulders with Byron and Hogg.

'A Year of Scottish Poems' is a glorious collection of 366 poems compiled by Gaby Morgan. Reflecting the changing seasons, landscape and history of Scotland and her people and marking key dates in the Scottish calendar - from Burns Night to Hogmanay - these poems are powerful, thoughtful and uplifting. With an introduction from the Scottish poet laureate Jackie Kay, this collection is bursting at the seams with the strongest voices in Scottish poetry:...