Böcker av Hugh McMillan

Diverted to Split is Hugh McMillan's new poetry book, his sixth from Luath. As before, his poetry ranges widely in subject matter, from his friends and family to his travels and his politics, and deals with life's great issues, love and mortality. Andrew Greig has noted that McMillan's poetry finds the universal in the microscopically personal, a platform, a verge, a wake, a train ride. As ever, humour plays a large part, sometimes bleak, sometimes wholehearted, but you're never laughing so much you lose sight of the human story, its triumphs, its ultimate failures. This poetry collection will not only be a hit with fans of Hugh McMillan's work, but any poetry lover that is seeking for warmth and the wit of humans during these turbulent times.

'The Opposite of Grieving brings together the talents of three poets who collectively run the publishing outlet Drunk Muse Press. There the similarities in their theme and style end. Hugh McMillan's poems are mostly lyrical meditations on a father's relationship and travels with his daughters, while Neil Young's satires rewrite and reimagine Greek myths with a contemporary twist, and Jessamine O'Connor's selection explores a gamut of responses to loss and bereavement. Each poet's work is characterised by an angled approach that causes the reader to re-examine expectations.

Witty, light-hearted tour around Dumfries and Galloway.

The Conversation of Sheep is a book by, for, and about sheep. For those who live in the country sheep are strange punctuation marks in life, chewing insouciantly in the background while folk are born, work, live and die below the great and sundering sky. Some of these poems feature sheep as bucolic extras in the film of life, others delve deep into the secret nature and personalities of sheep themselves. Hugh McMillan is an award winning poet and Michael Robertson, whose photographs also populate this book, is a shepherd who lives in the same village.