Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Lilias Fraser is Projects Manager at the Scottish Poetry Library.
Although it’s wary of systems that display ‘perfect specimens, the finished articles’, All One Breath is a fully realised guidebook to coming of age as an artist. Of course John Burnside’s art has been consummate for a significant time already; this book feels his most explicit yet in letting the reader in and describing how […]
Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie’s second collection of essays and pieces about the natural world, came out in April this year. The reviews are already out, and they are—with no surprise at all, given the respect around in general for her poems and prose—the verdict of fully paid-up Jamie enthusiasts. To read is to admire and to […]