Ten years after the Independence Referendum, Irish Pages asks diverse Scottish writers of distinction – established, mid-career and new – to think about their country, and take stock of the current state of its culture and polity, language and literature, ecology and environment, while a specially curated selection of Scotland’s emerging poets will offer a younger perspective. How will Scotland fare in an era of momentous and unpredictable political change? Stands Scotland where it did?

Co-edited by Kathleen Jamie and Don Paterson.

• Essays by Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Neal Ascherson, Dougie Strang, Colin Bramwell, Kate Molleson, David Greig, Margaret Elphinstone, Peter Mackay, Rosemary Goring, Jenny Lindsay, Stuart Kelly, James Campbell, James Robertson, Fraser MacDonald, Catriona McAra, Amanda Thomson, David Wheatley & Niall Campbell.
• New poems edited by Niall Campbell: Marjorie Lotfi, Roshni Gallagher, Taylor Strickland, Sam Tongue, Michael Grieve, Medha Singh, Colin Bramwell, Nuala Watt, Tarn MacArthur, Tim Tim Cheng, Patrick Romero McCafferty, Alycia Pirmohamed, Iona Lee, Patrick James Errington, Harry Ledgerwood, Siún Carden & Will Barnard.
  
• New prose and poetry from Brian Holton, Niall O’Gallagher, David Kinloch, David Wheatley, Rob McClure, Ryan Van Winkle, Morag Smith, Finola Scott, Alec Finlay & Ken Cockburn.
• From The Scottish Archive: “Scottish Culture and the End of Britain” (2002) by Angus Calder

• Essays and poems in translation by many of Ukraine’s leading writers and scholars, including: Serhiy Zhadan, Yuri Andrukhovych, Serhii Plokhy, Oksana Zabuzhko, Ostap Slyvynsky, Yuliya Musakovska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Jurko Prochasko, Iaroslava Strikha, Oleksandra Matviichuk, Iya Kiva, Oksana Lutsyshyna, Halyna Kruk, Olha Poliukhovych, Artem Chekh & Marjana Savka.
• Also work in English from Irish, British and American writers including: David Rieff, Carolyn Forché, Timothy Snyder, Amelia Glaser, Marci Shore, Peter Balakian, Christopher Merrill, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Bruce Weigl, Ed Vulliamy, Moya Cannon, Ciarán O’Rourke, Patrick Breslin, Chris Agee, Michael Longley & Mark Cousins.
  
• With further translations from the Irish, Hungarian, Spanish and Belarussian – and much more including “A Suite of Poems on the Holodomor”.
• Plus: Ukraine: A Love Story & Don’t Close Your Eyes – Two Outstanding Portfolios Of Photographs And Art Works.
• Edited by Chris Agee and Askold Melnyczuk.

• Love poems by Michael Longley
• Katheen Jamie & Brian Holton on translating Classical Chinese into Scots
• New translations of the great Sappho
• Alistair McIntosh’s “A Sixteenth Century Irish Sermon on COP26”
• Translations of Balkan fiction by Slavenka Drakulic, Magdalena Blazević, Korana Serdarević and Miljenko Jergović
• Chris Arthur on Nicholson’s imperialist statue in Lisburn
• “On Plymouth Brethenism” by William Brown
• A translation of a Ninth Century Irish prayer
• Roisin Costello on corncrakes and Irish
• “The Songs of Rathlin” by Sorcha Ní Lochlainn
• Cilian Roden on Robert Lloyd Praeger and Irish patriotism
• New poems and translations by Harry Clifton, Milena Williamson, Linda France, Philip Gross, Ruth Carr, Benjamin Keatinge, Chris Preddle, Ruth Padel and Antonietta Bocci
• Gerard McCarthy’s last essay
• New prose on love and loss by John Hill, Manus Charleton & Angela Wright

ON THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS

• Ruth Padel on “A Patch of Moonlight” in India
• Morten Strøkness offers “A Tourist’s Guide to Norway”
• Other new essays by Malachi O’Doherty, John Wilson Foster, Muireann Charleton and Niamh Morritt 
• New poems by Greg Delanty, Moya Cannon & Ciaran O’Rourke

PANDEMIC

• Chris Agee’s “Secular Prophecies”
• Robert Alan Jamieson & Alec Finlay on falling ill
• Amanda Thomson’s “Biding”
• John Glenday’s “Love”

INTO THE GREAT OUTDOORS

• Sean Lysaght on the Mayo Wilds
• Garry Mackenzie & Meg Bateman on Ben Dorain
• “The Corniche Carriage Clock: A Sequence” by John F. Deane
• New poems by Chris Preddle, Simon Ó Faoláin & Benjamin Keatinge

MODERN TIMES

• Gabriel Rosenstock on “The Irish Problem”
• Four love poems by Matt Kirkham
• Gerry Cambridge on “The Identitarian Delusion”
• Chris Benfry & Sven Birkerts on “Serendipity”
• “Varieties of Islam” by Jacob Agee
• Sacha Baron Cohen on The Silicon Six
• New short fiction by Slavenka Drakulić

PORTFOLIO

• “The Two of Them”, celebrated cartoons by Tisja Kljalović Braić

and many others

• Gerard McCarthy on the refugee crisis in Greece
• An unpublished survivor’s account of Bergen Belsen
• “A Trial” by Hubert Butler 
• Writings on Iran, Bosnia and Islam 
• Avi Shlaim on “Israel and the Arrogance of Power” 
• Dervla Murphy’s “Hasbara in Action” and John McHugo on Syria
• A trilingual elegy in Irish, Polish and English
• Chris Agee on “Troubled Belfast”
• Ghazels of Hafez
• Lara Marlowe on Mahmoud Darwish
• New poems on the Middle East by Seán Lysaght, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ciarán O’Rourke & Cathal Ó Searcaigh
• PLUS: “I am Belfast”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Mark Cousins

• An uncollected address by Seamus Heaney
• Jahan Ramazani on Heaney’s Globe & Bernard O’Donoghue on Stepping Stones
• Gabriel Rosenstock on a poisoned windharp
• Translations from the Latin of Virgil and Catullus
• A major interview with Michael Longley
• Chris Agee on the ethnic basis of Irish poetry
• Robert Crawford upholds “bardic voice”
• New poems by Moya Cannon, Ruth Carr, Frank Ormsby and Cathal Ó Searcaigh
• Fiction by Juliana Roth and Malachy Tallack
• Plus: “In the Aegean”, a remarkable photographic portfolio on the refugee crisis

• Barry Lopez on the trauma of sexual abuse
• Chris Agee & Kerry Hardie on aftermaths
• An unpublished essay by Hubert Butler
• Tom Mac Intyre’s “Memoirs”
• Michael Longley, Patricia Craig & Glenn Patterson remember the Titanic
• Major essays by Wendell Berry & Thomas Kilroy
• New Writing in Irish & Scots
• Joseph Horgan celebrates “the fifth element”
• PLUS: “Time in the East”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Elizabeth Switaj

• Ciaran Carson celebrates Irish traditional musicians
• Deirdre Mask on multicultural Ireland
• Tim Kenny on the collapse of Detroit
• Tom Mac Intyre’s “Memoirs
• New fiction by Robert Welch & Hunter Liguore
• Eibhlín Evans & Jonathan P. Watts on W.G. Sebald
• New poems and translations by Vona Groarke, Frankie Sewell, Sam Gardiner, Christopher Whyte & Cathal Ó Searcaigh
• PLUS: “The Light of Other Days/Solas ó Ré Eile”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Jim Maginn

plus much more…