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John Harris was a miner and a preacher who faced poverty so extreme he was reduced to composing poetry by scratching onto his own nails and using blackberry juice for ink. He was the first labouring-class man to win the Shakespeare Tercentenary Prize.
This wide-ranging anthology showcases the talented cohort of Gaelic poets who have come to prominence since the turn of the millennium
Nì farsaingeachd an duanaire seo taisbeanadh buidheann tàlantach de bhàird na Gàidhlig a thàinig am bàrr o char na mìle bliadhna
Writing in the Opitergino Mottense dialect of Veneto, Fabio Franzin describes the harsh reality of factory work, finding spaces of companionship and tenderness in the eroded and marginalized landscapes of working class culture
Both inventive literature from a remote corner of the world and poetical statement about the very nature of poetry
In this new book Steve Gardham has selected over a hundred folk songs, some previously published and others from out-of-print and scarce collections
This is the first comprehensive anthology of the Gaelic literature of Scotland, from the early Middle Ages to the present day.
A major bilingual anthology of Welsh literature including over 300 texts – poems, plays, memoirs, essays, extracts from novels and short stories, hymns, eulogies, elegies, medieval prose, political and theological commentaries
A comprehensive bilingual anthology of Frisian literature, including nearly a hundred and fifty poems in Frisian with translations into English.
Grains of Gold brings together for the first time an extensive selection of Occitan literature with English translations from the tenth to the twenty-first centuries.
This Fair Land is a comprehensive collection of around 200 texts in Maltese accompanied by new translations into English.
In its 125-year history the international language Esperanto has produced some remarkable writing. Much of this has remained unknown to the English-speaking world: translations were few and to be found, in the main, in Esperanto periodicals. Now, for the first time, in Star in a Night Sky, some of these translations appear in a single volume.
The Toad and the Donkey brings together texts in the Norman languages of the Channel Islands, along with other texts that illustrate the tangled linguistic heritages of what Victor Hugo, in exile in the Islands from 1852 until 1870, called ‘pieces of France fallen into the sea and picked up by England’.
With A Short Introduction to Galician Literature by Luciano Rodríguez Gómez and an essay, The Galician Language: An Unfinished Task, by Manuel González González.
A bilingual anthology of Manx literature, from the earliest Manx writings to the present day, along with their English translations.
An overall picture of Breton literature from the earliest traces in the Lais of Marie de France to the present day. The majority of the 150 stories, poems, legends and reminiscences are in Breton, with parallel translations into English.
I defy any sensitive reader to remain unmoved by its marvellous seductions of art, pride, pathos and imagination.
Jan Morris, Books of the Year, The Spectator
