Description
Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021
Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021
A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020
This Selected Poems celebrates Scotland’s most distinctive contemporary writer – a vivid minimalist, ruralist and experimentalist.






Gold from the Stone
Strong in the Rain
Signs Like This
This Is Yarrow
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems
Somewhere Else: Poems
Frost Fair
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Pretend You Don't Know Me
The Hundred Years' War
Eliza's Babes
The Handle of the Door
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Somewhere Else Entirely
Then Come Back
A Colomber in the House of Poesy
Being Alive
Book of Mercy
Over the Moon