• 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).

  • IN THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
    14 May 2013

    SHEENA Blackhall's tender reflection on an unborn grandchild can be found in Love Poems for Valentines (Malfranteaux Concepts, £5).

  • Sparrow
    11 May 2013

    Leanne O'Sullivan is based in West Cork in rural Ireland.

  • To Daffodils
    10 May 2013

    This has proved, in the end, a glorious season for daffodils.