Alexander McCall Smith takes readers on a journey through the Scottish landscape in A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems.
In choosing the Scottish poems which mean the most to him, there poems are helpfully split up into chapters such as ‘love & marriage’ and ‘war, conflict & loss’ allowing the reader to dip into varying emotions as they see fit.
Covering a range of themes this book showcases a huge plethora of Scottish poets who capture the spirit of the land.
A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems, by Alexander McCall Smith, published by Birlinn, £14.99.
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