Hallaig and Other Poems: Selected Poems of Sorley MacLean

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'A collection that explodes the clich of Gaelic poetry' GuardianonSorley MacLean: Collected Poems

'Convincingly demonstrates why MacLean was as important an influence on the badachd as Eliot and Pound were on English-language poetry Sunday HeraldonSorley MacLean: Collected Poems

'One of the very greatest of the Gaelic poets and one of the great love poets of the world' Iain Crichton Smith

This selected works of Sorley MacLean brings together published poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of Poetry. The poems will be given in their original Gaelic with English translations and introduced by Angus Peter Campbell and Aonghas Mac Neacail.

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'A collection that explodes the cliche of Gaelic poetry'

* Guardian on Sorley MacLean: Collected Poems *

'Convincingly demonstrates why MacLean was as important an influence on the badachd as Eliot and Pound were on English-language poetry'

* Sunday Herald on Sorley MacLean: Collected Poems *

'One of the very greatest of the Gaelic poets - and one of the great love poets of the world'

-- Iain Crichton Smith

Author Bio

Angus Peter Campbell (Aonghas Padraig Caimbeul) is an award-winning poet and novelist in both Gaelic and English, journalist, broadcaster and actor. Born and brought up on the Island of South Uist he now lives on the Isle of Skye with his wife and family.

Aonghas MacNeacail was born in Uig on Skye in 1942. He is a poet and songwriter, journalist, researcher, broadcaster, scriptwriter and filmmaker. He has published collections of poems in both Gaelic and English, and his writing has appeared in literary journals in Scotland and worldwide.