The process of judging a poetry competition can feel like a bombardment: hundreds of poems all clamouring for attention, almost crying out Choose me! I’m the poem you want! It’s something of an emotional rollercoaster too: being suddenly sucked in to so [...]

Somhairle Macgill-Eain (Sorley Maclean) Caoir Gheal Leumraich / White Leaping Flame: Collected Poems (Edited by Christopher Whyte and Emma Dymock) Polygon £25.00   Gaelic for Scots who do not speak it is an unsettling presence, familiar yet inaccessible, instantly recognized [...]