Ron Butlin

Author

Ron Butlin is an award-winning poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer chidlren’s au-thor and librettist whose works have been translated into many languages. He regularly gives creative writing workshops in schools, and was Edinburgh Makar from 2008 to 2014.

Ron Butlin is an award-winning poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer chidlren’s au-thor and librettist whose works have been translated into many languages. He regularly gives creative writing workshops in schools, and was Edinburgh Makar from 2008 to 2014.

Books

  • Horns & Wings & Stabiliser Things: The Lost Poets
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Feb 2020
    £5.99

    In the seventies and eighties, The Lost Poets – Ron Butlin, Andrew Greig, Liz Lochhead and Brian McCabe, with musician James Hutcheson – were Scotland’s reply to the Liverpool Poets. For many years they were regulars on the Edinburgh Fringe...

  • The Little Book of Scottish Rain
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Sep 2018
    £4.99

    Bleeters come and bleeters go, they never, never stay – if it’s not raining now more rain is on the way. It’s widely reported that Eskimos have over 50 words for snow. Given the equivalent ubiquity of rain in Britain’s northern climes, it is...

  • The Sound of My Voice
    Paperback | Pub: 05 Apr 2018
    £7.99

    Morris Magellan is thirty-four years old and already two-thirds destroyed. By day he is an executive, after six and at weekends the husband of an understanding wife and the father of two. At all times he is a music lover and a drunk. Of the past he...

  • Day of the Trolls
    Paperback | Pub: 10 Aug 2017
    £6.99

    Mischief and mess, making folk mad, smashing things, crashing things, making folk sad – we love being bad! . . . and we know where to go to be baddest of all. You want to join in? Then come to the mall! It’s the Day of the Trolls: Fart-Fart...

  • Steve & FranDan Take on the World
    Paperback | Pub: 18 May 2017
    £6.99

    Steve has had enough – enough of cyber-bullies, enough of adults messing up the world. Sharp-witted Fran and her brother worry-wart Dan feel exactly the same. And so, along with his dog Nessie, Steve and the FranDan twins leave town in the...

  • The Magicians of Scotland
    Paperback | Pub: 24 Jul 2015
    £9.99

    The Magicians of Scotland will build upon the success of The Magicians of Edinburgh (reprinted five times) and on that book’s critical acclaim. Ron Butlin is the Edinburgh Makar and this collection will have an Edinburgh emphasis while seeking...

  • The Magicians of Edinburgh
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Aug 2012
    £9.99

    Edinburgh has long inspired writers, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Hugh MacDiarmid. In this sparkling new collection of poems about the city in the twenty-first century, renowned poet and novelist Ron Butlin draws on his experience as...