“The Keelie Hawk”

On one level, Kathleen Jamie’s The Keelie Hawk is impossible to read – that is unless you happen to be fluent in Scots. Luckily on every verso page is an English ‘translation’ of the Scots poem, all of which meant I could only read the translations and not the original poems. Given the musicality of … Continue reading “The Keelie Hawk” →