A Double Celebration for a Very Special Book
05 Jun '20
Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape by Patrick Laurie is LONGLISTED for the WAINWRIGHT PRIZE and sells to Counterpoint in the USA.
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What’s in the News (during lockdown)?
01 Jun '20
Birlinn, Polygon and Arena writers have enjoyed widespread coverage over the last month. Here’s a taste of what the media said about our books:...
Iain Maloney’s Spotify Playlists
28 May '20
We love it when books and songs come together, and The Only Gaijin in the Village by Iain Maloney is a prime example. In this charming memoir of a...
Listen to Michael Pedersen on Music Matters
26 May '20
BBC Radio 3's Music Matters programme featured our very own Polygon Poet Michael Pedersen on Saturday 23rd May as part of their Postcards from...
Listen to Chapter One of Whisky Galore…Read by Birlinn Staff
16 May '20
To celebrate World Whisky Day 2020, here's a recording of the first chapter of Whisky Galore, Compton MacKenzie's classic tale of wartime rationing,...
Meet Polygon author Isla Dewar
07 May '20
Isla Dewar’s first book, Keeping Up with Magda, was published in 1995. Dewar found success with her second novel, Women Talking Dirty, the film of...
Cooking up a Storm… in Lockdown
05 May '20
It is always a thrill when new books arrive from the printer. The boxes are delivered, the editors hover nervously, you run a knife along the tape…...
Liz Lochhead reads ‘The People’s Poet’, inspired by Edwin Morgan
29 Apr '20
Liz Lochhead reads her poem 'The People's Poet', which is dedicated to and inspired by poet Edwin Morgan. Recorded at the "Lost Poets" event at the...
Behind the Scenes of the Edwin Morgan Twenties #EM20s
27 Apr '20
2020 marks the centenary year of Edwin Morgan, Scotland’s first poet laureate. To mark the occasion, Polygon has produced five new collections,...
Meet Polygon author Robert J. Harris
24 Apr '20
Robert J. Harris was born in Dundee and studied at the University of St. Andrews where he graduated with a first class honours degree in Latin....
Alastair Reid – A Restless Content
23 Apr '20
From the Archive – a 70th birthday appreciation of Alastair Reid.
Neu! Reekie! to Celebrate Edwin Morgan’s Centenary in a Live Film Transmission
22 Apr '20
Join our friends Neu! Reekie! on Friday 25th April at 7.30pm as they celebrate the life and work of Edwin Morgan.
