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The poems in Ayont the Dyke, lyrical but challenging, carry echoes of the Scots voices of fishermen from the north-east which he heard in childhood long before he encountered spoken English. There is too in MacNeacail’s work a MacDiarmid-like willingness to seek out rare, rich words and their subtle meanings, and this gives these poems both an economy and expansiveness that is fresh, stimulating and uncommon in contemporary Scots verse.

36 pages, ISBN ISBN 978 1 902944 28 9, £4.50 inc.p&p
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HEM AND HEID: Ballads, Sangs, Saws, Poems by James Robertson : These poems and translations, written over the course of a decade, cross centuries, continents and cultures, transmitting signals and carrying echoes as they go. From the Old Testament to René Magritte, from Joni Mitchell to Saint Sebastian, from the slave trade to Wounded Knee, they explore the legacies of myth, legend, history and art, and articulate their findings in a rich and literate Scots that is both mindful of the past and ambitious for the future.

32 pages, ISBN 978 1 902944 26 5, £4.50 inc.p&p
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A TUNNEL OF LOVE by Gordon Dargie: Here is a new and gripping poetic voice, delivering a sequence of sonnets of remarkable power and subtlety. These intense, unfailingly honest poems chart a life that moves from a hard, sometimes brutal upbringing in mid 20th century Lanarkshire to the 'quiet calm' of the midsummer dim of Shetland. This collection deals with the mysteries of sex and the secrets of sexuality. It declares uncompromisingly that, even in an era when such matters were rarely acknowledged and in a place where 'nothing happened', experiences that were real, vital, and passionate did happen. This is an extraordinary poetic debut.

32 pages, ISBN 978 1 902944 25 8, £4.50 inc. p&p
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A TAPSALTEERIE TOUER : Andrew Tannahill, descended from the family of the Paisley weaver poet Robert Tannahill, was heir to both a radical political tradition and a rich literary one. Hugh MacDiarmid wrote to him, 'I have no fault to find with the Scots, you are a master of it, and I only wish you'd write more in it.' Kettillonia is delighted and honoured to publish a small selection from the work of the late Andrew Tannahill, poet, translator and friend of some of the leading figures of the Scottish Renaissance, including Hugh MacDiarmid, J.D. Fergusson, Hamish Henderson and Douglas Young.

28 pages, ISBN 978 1 902944 241 28, £3.00 inc. p&p
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