James Robertson
24 South Street
Newtyle
Angus, PH12 8UQ
Tel: 01828 650615
Email :james@kettillonia.co.uk
Web :www.kettillonia.co.uk
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HEM AND HEID by James Robertson`Add to Basket |
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ISBN : 978-1-902944-26-5 Price : £4.50
These poems and translations by James Robertson, written over the course of a decade, cross centuries, continents and cultures, transmitting signals and carrying echoes as they go. From the Old Testament to René Magritte, from Joni Mitchell to Saint Sebastian, from the slave trade to Wounded Knee, they explore the legacies of myth, legend, history and art, and articulate their findings in a rich and literate Scots that is both mindful of the past and ambitious for the future. 32pp.
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a tunnel of love by Gordon DargieAdd to Basket |
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ISBN : 978-1-902944-25-8 Price : £4.50
Gordon Dargie's is a new and gripping poetic voice, delivering a sequence of sonnets of remarkable power and subtlety. These intense, unfailingly honest poems chart a life that moves from a hard, sometimes brutal upbringing in mid 20th century Lanarkshire to the 'quiet calm' of the midsummer dim of Shetland. This collection deals with the mysteries of sex and the secrets of sexuality. It declares uncompromisingly that, even in an era when such matters were rarely acknowledged and in a place where 'nothing happened', experiences that were real, vital, and passionate did happen. This is an extraordinary poetic debut. 32 pp.
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Smoke by Jenni DaichesAdd to Basket |
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ISBN 1 902944 224, 24 pages, price £3.00
Jenni Daiches's thought-provoking, intensely humane sequence is a meditation on her Jewish inheritance. The poems move effortlessly between personal reflection and history, and are replete with simple but memorable images of hope and despair, annihilation and survival.
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Between Minch and Muckle Flugga by Donald S. MurrayAdd to Basket |
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ISBN : 1 902944 23 2 Price : £3.00
In these poems Donald S. Murray writes with wonderful wit and a real sense of intimacy of men and women from the Western Isles to Shetland whose characters, for generations, have been carved and weathered by the sea that fills their harbours, scours their shorelines and colours their perceptions of the world.
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Whaur the Deep Sea Devauls by Yang LianAdd to Basket |
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(trs Brian & Harvey Holton) Price : £4.00
ISBN : 1 9029 44 21 6
This pamphlet presents the work of one of the major voices in modern Chinese poetry in Scots translation. Published to mark Yang Lian's appearance at the 2005 Edinburgh International Book Festival, it contains the complete sequence 'Whaur the Deep Sea Devauls' (Where the Sea Stands Still) along with 16 'Sixteeners' (16-line poems). The sequence is translated by Brian Holton, Yang Lian's principal translator into English, and the Sixteeners are "owerset" by Scots poet (and brother of Brian) Harvey Holton. A unique and astonishing collaboration, pushing the boundaries of language and poetry. As Yang Lian has said, "To open up language is to open up possibilities of thinking and feeling..."
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In the Orchard by Muriel Stuart.Add to Basket |
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ISBN : 978-1-902944-09-08 Price : £3.00
Hailed by Hugh MacDiarmid as "the greatest female poet Scotland has yet produced", Stuart, who wrote her best work in the 1920s, was not Scottish at all, but MacDiarmid was absolutely right to praise her brilliance. This selection of 21 of her poems includes the well-known 'In the Orchard' and 'The Seed Shop', as well as introductory essays on her life and work.
(40 pages, ISBN 1 902944 09 7)
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Hello, Maister Smyth by Brent Hodgson.Add to Basket |
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ISBN 1 902944 07 0 Price : £3.00
New Zealand-born Hodgson_s talents are such that he can apply his unique brand of Scots with equal skill to moving translations from the Chinese, quiet meditations, and droll takes on life_s absurdities. Who else is using the language of the makars to tackle such subjects as spaghetti hoops and python-wrestling?
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A Rising Fever by Ian McDonoughAdd to Basket |
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ISBN 1 902944 06 2 - Price : £3.00
In this meticulously crafted sequence Ian McDonough addresses the constant bombardment of words and information that we are all subjected to _ and makes sense of it. Here, language is honed down to the bare essentials.
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Pathfinder by Ellie McDonaldAdd to Basket |
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ISBN 1 902944 05 4 - Price : £3.00
A poet who writes and speaks out of her native Dundee with total commitment and honesty. Her work is widely admired. This pamphlet contains previously uncollected poems as well as new work.
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The Day o Judgement by Dugald Buchanan (1716-68)Add to Basket |
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Translated into Scots by James Robertson.
This long poem on the final confrontation between God and sinner is generally regarded as Buchanan's masterpiece. A dramatic vision of eternal punishment, it is printed here in full, in dual Gaelic and Scots texts: a publishing first.
(32 pages, ISBN 1 902944 04 6) |
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Temples fae Creels by Andrew McNeilAdd to Basket |
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Price : £3.00
McNeil_s poems open in Anstruther, Fife and move outwards, from childhood to adulthood, from local to universal themes, exploring questions of culture, language, community and inheritance.
(20 pages, ISBN 1 902944 02 X) |
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The Unseen Hospital by Maureen SangsterAdd to Basket |
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ISBN : 1 902944 Price : £3.00
The fruits of a residency at Dumfries Royal Infirmary and Crichton Royal, this collection celebrates some of those workers who are not so visible in hospitals - among them the sewing and linen services, porters, caterers and hairdressers. It is also a moving and thoughtful meditation on health, life, death, recovery, sadness and happiness in a location - the hospital - where all of these things are brought sharply into focus.
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Rock is Water by Colin DonatiAdd to Basket |
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ISBN : 1 902944 15 1 Price : £3.00
Subtitled ‘A History of the Theories of Rain’, Colin Donati’s first collection of poetry has been long-awaited by many. Colin is widely published in magazines and anthologies, and this scintillating array of poems displays his fascination with wordplay and structure, as well as with themes of natural history, human existence and interaction with the universe, time, history and both the surface and deep meanings of language.
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Disguise by Alex ClunessAdd to Basket |
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ISBN : 1-902944 19 4 Price : £3.00
This collection by Shetland-based poet Alex Cluness is deceptive in more ways than one. Apparently simple, the poems lure you into the minds of eighteen different men filled with the hopes and despairs of being in love. Funny and poignant, they suggest that the porn star and the minister, the zen master and the boxer, the astronaut and the alcoholic have at least this much in common: that love can be the loneliest emotion in the universe.
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Scottish Faust by Tom HubbardAdd to Basket |
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ISBN : 1-902944 18 6 Price : £3.00
Writing in both Scots and English, Tom Hubbard revisits the Faust legend and gives it a Scottish accent. The ballad tradition is strongly present as the dusty-foot makar crosses and re-crosses the borders of reality and fantasy. Medieval polymath Michael Scot makes several appearances, while on the way homage is paid to Shakespeare, Berlioz, Dumas père, R.L. Stevenson, Ronald Stevenson and others.
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