Aibisidh/ABC

Angus Peter Campbell is one of Scotland's most respected contemporary poets. Aibisidh, his latest poetry collection, written in Gaelic and English, is a powerful and sharp-eyed examination of the fragmentation of language and identity in our modern global age. Memories, both wry and tender, of Campbell's native South Uist are at the core of this collection, though the poet's eye ranges widely – from bookstalls by the Seine, to paintings in Bonn, to music played in the former USSR. Through personal invocations of love to witty political allegories, Angus Peter Campbell considers the ways in which the dissolution of certainties challenges us to discover new connections – between individuals, communities and cultures.