• After the Creel Fleet
    23 May 2013

    Here is the title poem from Niall Campbell's shortlisted entry in this year's Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for poetry pamphlets (HappenStance, £4).

  • Dark
    22 May 2013

    Maggie Rabatski's Holding (New Voices Press) was shortlisted in this year's Callum Macdonald Award for poetry pamphlets.

  • On Time
    21 May 2013

    We continue the sequence of poems from the shortlist in this year's Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for poetry pamphlets with this philosophical offering from Donald Mackay's On Time (Mariscat Press, £5).

  • Nest
    20 May 2013

    THE runner-up in this year's Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for poetry pamphlets is Nest, with poems by Tom Pow and drawings by Hugh Bryden (Roncadora

  • THE CONTEST
    18 May 2013

    FOR the first time in years, and to my delight, a song thrush has joined the resident blackbirds in my back garden.

  • ZIPPO ENDINGS
    17 May 2013

    THIS year's Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for poetry pamphlets (run by the National Library of Scotland), has been won by Stewed Rhubarb Press with their pamphlet The Glassblower Dances, featuring poems by Rachel McCrum.

  • LATE SPRINGS THIS NORTH
    16 May 2013

    THE late George Bruce (1909-2002), much respected poet, BBC producer, and Scottish literary presence, was born in Fraserburgh.

  • THE REVENANT
    15 May 2013

    ANDREW Young is the revenant – one who returns after a long absence – in this quirky sample from his Selected Poems (Carcanet, £9.95).