Anna Crowe’s sequence of twenty-one poems Figure in a Landscape was published by Mariscat Press and launched at the StAnza poetry festival in St Andrews in 2010. It was the Poetry Book Society’s pamphlet choice for Spring 2010.

The sequence is a meditation on Paisatge amb figueres (Landscape with fig trees), the work of sculptor Andreu Maimó

Christine De Luca writes in both English and Shetlandic (a blend of Norse and Old Scots). Although she deals in Dat Trickster Sun (Mariscat) with division and rupture – from the seismic convulsions as islands are born, to human insularity and loneliness – she finds, in the beauty of her birthplace and the remarkable flexibility of its language, images that repair and restore.

Gerda Stevenson’s long-awaited first full-length collection is filled with song and music – skipping rhymes, piano, dance and marching music, laments and lullabies. She sings about butterflies, snowberries, aunts, teachers, Pentland rain, Sarajevo roses, graveyards, driftwood and the lost Eden of childhood.

Child’s Eye is Anita’s debut collection of prize-winning stories and linked poetry on the themes of love and loss. Told through the eyes of children and teenagers, relationships are at the heart of this work, and they are sometimes dysfunctional, sometimes loving, and sometimes not what they appear, at first sight, to be.

This selection of Blunden’s prose about the First World War includes the complete text of De bello germanico, his first, lively sketch of the war as he lived it in 1916. Deeply informed by his reading of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, and equally by his knowledge of the countryside, Blunden’s vivid prose summons up for us what was human and natural in that most unnatural of environments, the battlefields of the Western Front.

Peter Mackay’s work inhabits a “trans-historical” landscape, criss-crossed by journeys between the modern metropolis of his working life and the Lewis of his younger years, recouped in poetic sorties in a language whose names and nouns contain the scorings of different cultures: Norse, Gaelic, Scottish, Anglo-Saxon.

Based on original research this book is a unique attempt at a general assessment of EU frontiers. Internal frontiers are losing some of their key functions but there are many responses to the new situation, as a case study of French frontiers abundantly illustrates.

These poems explore the meaning of place in a world of full of change. Freely mixing Scots, Standard English and American slang, they create their own idiom to demand “a change of address.”