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Lament

by Lizzie MacGregor, Editor(s)

ISBN: 9781904598527
Imprint: Polygon
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Format: Hardback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

It is hard to put grief into words, and many people turn to poems to speak for them at an intensely difficult time. This book is the result of years of experience in helping to find appropriate poems. Poems in Scots and Gaelic are accompanied by glossaries of unfamiliar words, or parallel translations in English, as appropriate.

Featured poets include: George Mackay Brown • Hamish Henderson • Violet Jacob • Norman MacCaig • Donald John MacDonald • Edwin Morgan • Edwin Muir • Janet Paisley • Kathleen Raine • James Robertson • Iain Crichton Smith • Sydney Goodsir Smith • William Soutar • Robert Louis Stevenson • Gael Turnbull • Douglas Young

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