A selection of poems taken from Martinâ’s first two collections, The Larch Plantation and The Song of the Quern, his collaboration with the Scottish artist Mark I’Anson, Always Boats and Men.

A Belgian pagoda and a red Hungarian hedgehog; 12-year-old Hector Berlioz falls in love; a French tribute to Edgar (Allan) Poe; lakes in Germany and Italy, rivers in Switzerland; home thoughts from the Mediterranean; the bloody end of bonny Kate; the painters El Greco and Csontváry; variations on Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov; Catullus celebrates erotic marriage; with much more.

“Hymn to a Young Demon” is a heady burst of fresh air, with poems in both Gaelic and the poet’s own English versions. It is a book which falls eloquently in two parts–‘the gift of anger’ and ‘the other turning’–articulated by the furious energy and irrepressible zest for life that readers of Aonghas MacNeacail’s work will instantly recognize.

The Scottish Poetry Library worked with poets Douglas Dunn, Vicki Feaver and Diana Hendry on a commission to write on the theme of age. This new work is part of The Baring Foundation’s ‘Late Style’ artist commissions series.

From the forests of Finland to the plain of Lombardy, from a Scottish beach to a river island in Hungary, Tom Hubbard deploys the riches of the Scots language to explore that tragicomic space we call Europe.

Róisín and François first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica. And everything changes. While Róisín grew up in a tiny village in Ireland, ablaze with a passion for science and all there is to discover about the world, François was raised by his beautiful young mother, who dreamt of new worlds but was unable to turn her back on her past.

Lesley Glaister’s latest novel is a gothic tale of horror and neglect. In a narrative that switches between the present day and the 1920s, we see how the damage wrought during the childhood of twins Isis and Osiris has blighted their lives for nearly a century.

At the age of 14, Lynsey Calderwood suffered a traumatic brain injury that left her physically unmarked but destroyed her memory. Thrust back into an apparently nonsensical world of which she had no recollection, Lynsey spiralled downwards into depression and eating disorders as she became socially ostracized. This is the story, in her own words, of Lynsey’s quest to discover her identity and, eventually, to come to terms with her disability.