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The history and character of Edinburgh inspire every piece in Stewart Conn's new collection. Stewart's poems, paired with John Knight's beautifully detailed illustrations evoke the spirit of the city and its unique aspects. Knight's pieces are not simply illustrative. This work is a collaboration between architect and poet.

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This new retrospective by one of Scotland's most distinguished poets supersedes his early collected volumes, In the Kibble Place (1987) and Stolen Light (1999).

A powerful and affectionate evocation of the city in which it is set, presented from the point of view of the marginal and dispossessed who take centre stage. A sombre meditation on human life's fragility, made good by human warmth and community.

A vibrant selection of the best Scottish love poems spanning centuries of affection and desire.

Stewart Conn is one of Scotland's leading poets. His Stolen Light: Selected Poems was widely praised for its evocations of the land, people and farms of his Ayrshire boyhood, and for his 'unnerving sense of the fragility of life' (douglas dunn). This new book includes many poems written during his three years as Edinburgh's first Poet Laureate. In the title-sequence, Ghosts at Cockcrow - set in Burgundy - he reflects on the transience of beaut...

Incorporating the nation's best-loved poems as selected in a BBC Scotland listeners poll, this is a celebration of Scots poetry in all its forms.

The waif-like figure peering from Bonnard's The Breakfast Room instils a sense of mystery and marginality in Stewart Conn's title-poem. Among other portents of transience in his latest collection are two briefly glimpsed duck shooters. Responses to music, tinged with warmth and humour, highlight the redeeming power of art. The book concludes with a group of love poems imbued with tenderness and a treasuring of the here and now. The waif-like f...

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