A COUPLE of years ago, at St Andrews' poetry festival, Alastair Reid announced he was going to read his poem Scotland for the last time, after which he took a match to the page and burned it gleefully.
Essayist, poet, traveller and translator Alastair Reid has spent most of his life outwith scotland, yet he has never quite let go By Alan Taylor
A COUPLE of years ago, at St Andrews' poetry festival, Alastair Reid announced he was going to read his poem Scotland for the last time, after which he took a match to the page and burned it gleefully.