The Keelie Hawk: Poems in Scots

A sensational collection of bilingual poems from the National Poet of Scotland.

The Keelie Hawk is a landmark collection from Kathleen Jamie, the current Makar (National Poet) of Scotland. For the first time, Kathleen Jamie has brought her astonishing lyric talent to the language of her homeland, with outstanding results. This deeply resonant collection is written in Scots, with each poem accompanied by a translation into English. Its publication is a significant event in Scottish literature, not only a reclaiming by one of our finest poets of the mouth-music of literary Scots, but a furthering of that language: "by making poems, a language develops," Jamie observes in a fascinating afterword.