Individual Poets

From long-time favourite writers to exciting new voices in contemporary poetry

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The Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay

£9.95

The story of a black girl’s adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter.

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In a Time of Distance & Other Poems Alexander McCall Smith

£12.99

In this collection, Alexander McCall Smith reminds us to look at the world differently, to stop once in while and look up at the sky.

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Burns for Every Day of the Year Edited by Pauline Mackay

£20.00

366 daily dips into Burns to inspire, invigorate and amuse.

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Paradise by Dante, translated by Alasdair Gray

£14.99

The final book from Alasdair Gray, Paradise is a fitting conclusion to his own irreplaceable body of work, as well as to his masterful retelling of Dante’s trilogy.

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The Threadbare Coat by Thomas A. Clark

£12.99

Celebrating Scotland’s most distinctive contemporary writer – a vivid minimalist, ruralist and experimentalist.

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Selected Poems by John Glenday

£14.99

A new selection from one of our foremost lyric poets, including work from some long-out-of-print early collections

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That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu

£8.99

The story of one young man, from birth to adulthood, told in fragments of memory – a deeply moving and completely original work of literature from one of the brightest British writers of today.

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The Night Jar by Louise Peterkin

£9.99

The dynamic first collection from this popular Scottish poet, Peterkin explores the expectations and limits of being human with lashings of wit and sometimes a disquieting note of threat.

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The Readiness by Alan Gillis

£10.99

Alan Gillis addresses some of the most pressing concerns of the age with a formal confidence, a dry wit and often astonishing lyricism.

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Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood

£14.99

The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist & poet – long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy and humour.

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Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge

£10.99

In this capricious, dreamlike collection, characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness, from suffocating relationships and institutions, to toxic environments and ecstatic asphyxiations.

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The Actual by Inua Ellams

£9.99

“This is what poetry looks like when you are a word sorcerer, a linguistic swordsman, a metaphor-dazzler, a passionate creator of poetry as fire, as lament, as beauty, as reflection, as argument, as home. I was blown away by this book”- Bernardine Evaristo

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