2011 New Scottish Titles
This list conveniently collects together the Scottish poetry titles that have come to the Librarian's
attention in 2011.
We hope you will find this list useful, either for requesting books and pamphlets to borrow from
the SPL, or in buying them. If you find any titles difficult to track down, or have any other
questions, please consult us.
We are pleased to list omitted titles, and would ask you to supply each element of the given
information, including price and ISBN where available. Advice of forthcoming titles is welcomed,
and should be sent to Julie Johnstone at the Scottish Poetry Library.
SINGLE COLLECTIONS
Jean Atkin , Lost at sea, illustrated by Hugh Bryden (Roncadora)
D.M. Black, Claiming kindred (Arc)
Ian Blake , Remembering Falstaff and others (Diehard)
Tom Bryan, Doubling back (Dionysia)
David Burnett, Slingshots (Black Cygnet)
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John Burnside, Black cat bone (Jonathan Cape)
John Burnside, Versuch über das Licht : Gedichte, tr. Iain Galbraith (Carl Hanser)
Gerry Cambridge , Notes for lighting a fire (HappenStance, 2012)
Angus Peter Campbell, Aibisidh (Polygon)
Stuart B. Campbell, In defence of protozoans (Dionysia)
Ken Cockburn , Ink, with ~ in the fields (Abertey University)
Anna Crowe , Paisatge amb figura (enSiola poesia)
Des Dillon, Scunnered (Luath)
Carol Ann Duffy, The bees (Picador)
Hal Duncan, Songs for the devil and death (Papaveria)
Alistair Findlay, Never mind the captions (Luath)
Rody Gorman, Beartan Briste (Cape Breton University)
Andrew Greig , As though we were flying (Bloodaxe)
Andrew Greig, Getting higher: the complete mountain poems (Polygon)
Tom Hubbard, The Chagall winnocks : wi ither Scots poems and ballants o Europe (Grace Note)Paul
Hullah, Homing (Word Power)
Jackie Kay, Fiere (Picador)
David Kinloch, Finger of a Frenchman (Carcanet)
Tariq Latif, The Punjabi weddings (Arc)
Robert Leach, After the storm (Dionysia)
Neil Leadbeater, Librettos for the black Madonna (White Adder)
Lis Lee, Vanilla summer (Dionysia)
Eddie Linden, A thorn in the flesh: selected poems (Hearing Eye)
Liz Lochhead, A choosing : the selected poems (Polygon)
Roddy Lumsden, Terrific melancholy (Bloodaxe)
Peter McCarey, Collected contraptions (Carcanet)
Sorley MacLean, An Cuilithionn 1939 : and unpublished poems, ed. Christopher Whyte (Association for
Scottish Literary Studies)
Sorley MacLean, White leaping flame: collected poems (Polygon)
Sorley MacLean, Sangs tae Eimhir, the Dàin do Eimhir owerset intae the Lawlan Scots tung, Derrick
McClure (Acair Books)
Henry Marsh, The hammer and the fire (Maclean Dubois)
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JO Morgan, Long cuts (CB Editions)
Thom Nairn, Sky burial (Dionysia)
Joanna Paterson, The shaman birches of Argyll (s.n.)
David Scott, The box (Chardon)
Iain Crichton Smith, New collected poems, edited by Matthew McGuire (Carcanet)
Kenneth Steven, Evensong (SPCK)
J. L. Williams, Condition of fire (Shearsman)
Dawn Wood, Hermes with gift (Abertay University)
SINGLE COLLECTIONS – PAMPHLETS
Norma Allan, Poems of Greece (the author)
David Betteridge (author) & Tom Malone (designer), Other journeys: & beyond (Rhizome)
Sheena Blackhall, Bluid-kin, Hen utopia, and, Crannog woman ( Malfranteaux Concepts)
Sheena Blackhall, Mr Pavlova’s comb-over : bairn rhymes in Scots & English (Reading Bus)
Sheena Blackhall, The berserker: poems in Scots and English (Lochlands)
Sheena Blackhall , Census matters : poems & tales in Scots & English (Malfranteaux Concepts)
Graham Brodie, Youyou, and, Wild ways (Whirlpool)
Irene Brown & Anna Dickie, Imprint (Jaggnath)
Jim Carruth, Working the hill (Mariscat)
A.C. Clarke, A natural curiosity (New Voices)
Jennifer Copley, Living Daylights (HappenStance)
Peter Daniels, Mr Luczinski makes a move ( HappenStance)
Teresa Doughty, Poems of the land and sea (the author)
Lorna Dowell, Crossing the ellipsis (HappenStance)
Douglas Dunn, Invisible ink (Mariscat)
Sally Evans, A Burrell tapestry (Diehard)
Cliff Forshaw, Tiger (HappenStance)
Lydia Fulleylove, Notes on sea and land (HappenStance)
Graham Fulton, The ruin of Poltalloch, and, The zombie man (Controlled Explosion)
Graham Fulton, Open plan (Smokestack), Full Scottish breakfast (Red Squirrel)
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Peter Galinsky & Wilfrid Treasure, Adversary (s.n.)
Don Paterson & Alison Watt, Hiding in Full View (Ingleby Gallery)
Peter Gilmour, Taking account (HappenStance)
Yvonne Gray, Hours (Galdragon)
Lesley Harrison, Ecstatics: a language of birds (Brae Editions)
Kirsten Irving, What to do (HappenStance)
AB Jackson, Apocrypha (Donut)
Vivien Jones, Kin (Two Beans)
Ross Kightly, Gnome balcony (HappenStance)
A. Mary Lindsay, Waiting for – : poems of hope, expectation and change (Mayet)
Pat Lines, Looking in (LemongrassHut)
Pippa Little, The snow globe (Red Squirrel)
Michael Loveday, He said / she said (HappenStance)
Marion McCready, Vintage Sea (Calder Wood)
John McDonald, Harvest moon (Shamlo)
Jane McKie, Garden of Bedsteads (Mariscat)
Duncan MacLaurin, I Sing the Sonnet (Snakeskin)
Hugh McMillan, Cairn, design by Hugh Bryden (Roncadora)
Michael Mackmin, from there to her (HappenStance)
Angus Martin, Paper archipelagos (the author)
Gordon Mason, Uncle Salvador’s cigar (Red Ceilings)
Gordon Mason, Last call for Casablanca (Flutter)
Lyn Moir, Velázquez's riddle : a sequence of poems (Calder Wood)
Marion Montgomery, Lyart (Red Squirrel)
Hayden Murphy, Linked lines (Roncadora)
Alistair Noon, Out of the cave (Calder Wood)
Sonata Paliulyte, Still life, tr. Kerry Shawm Keys & Irena Praitis (Calder Wood)
John Patfield, Words are wonderful (United)
Alasdair Paterson, in arcadia (Oystercatcher)
Jan Sutch Pickard, Horizontal gatherings 9 (Oystercatcher)
Tessa Ransford, Poems & angels (wisdomfield)
Robert Rendall, Eastern window (Galdragon)
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Elizabeth Rimmer, Wherever we live now (Red Squirrel)
Christopher Salvesen, Crossing the border (Harpercroft)
Matthew Stewart, Inventing truth (Happenstance)
Gael Turnbull , Amorous greetings (Mariscat)
Dai Vaughan, Glasgow moments (Art-Works)
Rab Wilson, 1957 Flying Scot : a sonnet redouble, with a suite of fifteen compositions by Hugh Bryden ,
linocuts by Ben Bryden (Roncadora)
Ross Wilson, The Heavy Bag (Cander Wood)
Alan Young , Beyond the last wave (Elizabeth Simon)
Alan Young, Almost no way back (Elizabeth Simon)
Pavement poetry: poems 'caught' during StAnza 2010 in an unofficial one-man fringe event
(PoemCatcher)
ANTHOLOGIES
Beredter Norden : Schottische Lyrik seit 1900, edited by Iain Galbraith (Rugerup)
The best British poetry 2011, ed. Roddy Lumsden (Salt)
Changing places, ed. Frank Devine, Tom Slaven, Jimmy Whelan (Changing Places)
The flight of the turtle : new writing Scotland 29, ed. Alan Bissent and Carl MacDougall (ASLS)
I chose to listen: new translations from Reel Festivals : Syria, Lebanon and Scotland, ed. Ryan Van Winkle
and Lauren Pyott (Forest)
The reiver’s stone, edited by Graham Hardie (Ettrick Forest)
A rose loupt oot : poetry and song celebrating the UCS work-in, edited by David Betteridge (Smokestack)
These islands we sing : an anthology of Scottish islands poetry, ed. Kevin MacNeil (Polygon)
Writing ground: new writing with a sense of place, Jean Atkin et al (s.n.)
ANTHOLOGIES – PAMPHLETS
A banquet of writing served up by Crichton Writers : 2011 anthology, Crichton Writers (Crichton Writers)
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Dàin do Shomhairle/Poems for Sorley (Urras Shomhairle/The Sorley MacLean Trust in association with
the Scottish Poetry Library)
Spell winders, ed.Jim Carruth (Dreadful Night)
Mar chomharra: Ruaraidh MacThòmais aig 90 / Derick Thomson at 90: a celebration (Gaelic Books
Council)
BACKGROUND
Contemporary poetry, Nerys Williams (EUP)
George Mackay Brown: the wound and the gift, Ron Ferguson (Saint Andrew)
The HappenStance story: chapter five, by Helena Nelson (HappenStance)
Poetry, John Strachan and Richard Terry (EUP)
Sorley MacLean, by Peter Mackay (AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, 2010)
A traveller’s guide to literary Scotland: 60 places to visit in Scotland associated with writers from
Shetland to Ecclefechan, by Alan Riach, in association with VisitScotland and ASLS
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