This restorative collection of Scottish poems will help readers and listeners to accept a loss and celebrate a life, whether at formal religious or secular ceremonies, or at quiet personal commemorations.

It is hard to put grief into words, and many people turn to poems to speak for them at an intensely difficult time. This book is the result of years of experience in helping to find appropriate poems. Poems in Scots and Gaelic are accompanied by glossaries of unfamiliar words, or parallel translations in English, as appropriate.

Featured poets include: George Mackay Brown • Hamish Henderson • Violet Jacob • Norman MacCaig • Donald John MacDonald • Edwin Morgan • Edwin Muir • Janet Paisley • Kathleen Raine • James Robertson • Iain Crichton Smith • Sydney Goodsir Smith • William Soutar • Robert Louis Stevenson • Gael Turnbull • Douglas Young

Lizzie MacGregor, Editor