Scottish Poetry

Explore Scotland's poetry, past and present

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Patient Dignity Dr Bashabi Fraser, CBE & Vibha Pankaj

A transnational collection of poems and paintings bridging India and Scotland.

Twelve paintings by Victoria Crowe inspire twelve poems by Christine De Luca to form a beautiful conversation between an artist and a poet.

A new selection covering forty years of writing on love, history, power, submission and death.

A new selection of the work of one of Scotland’s most celebrated voices, edited by Kathleen Jamie.

This beautiful collection roams across many aspects of Scottish life and culture: its landscape and its history, its people and its celebrations.

Aoife Lyall’s debut collection explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood.

A collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go

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.

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.

This landmark anthology showcases Edinburgh in the modern day, with poems and short stories inspired by its renowned and lesser-known locations.

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

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