Aonghas MacNeacail

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Scottish Book of the Year Award 2012 shortlist announced

16 Nov 2012

Nominees include Alan Warner, Aonghas MacNeacail, Carol Ann Duffy, Ewan Morrison and Irvine Welsh

The shortlist has been announced for the 2012 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year. This years award will be chosen from a list of seven authors including James Kelman, Irvine Welsh and Kathleen Jamie to become the best Scottish book of…

Tantallon! These Lands This Wall set to be highlight of the Lammermuir Festival

22 Aug 2012

The classical music fest promises 'beautiful music in beautiful places'

'Beautiful music in beautiful places' is the strapline of East Lothian’s Lammermuir Festival and, actually, that pretty much sums it up. Delving further into just what that means reveals some pretty phenomenal venues and programmes that can only be…

Home truths

6 Aug 2009

From fish factory worker to TS Eliot Prize-winning poet, Jen Hadfield talks to Kirstin Innes

It’s been a strange old year for poetry. Although the highs of Carol Ann Duffy’s appointment as the first female Poet Laureate and the unpleasantness of Ruth Padel and Derek Walcott’s fight for the Oxford Professor of Poetry position have almost…