Edinburgh Come All YeA selection of commissioned work and other poems written during Alan Spences time as the Edinburgh Makar. These poems celebrate Scotland, Scottishness and the events of 2017 2021. The book is illustrated with stunning artwork by Victoria Crowe, Alison Watt, Rose Strang, David Williams and Joyce Gunn Cairns.

He also explores the craft of harpmaking

Jean Sprackland

who might just be a collaborator

spreading its deathly virus

Mohammed Hasan Alwan

riding around Thessaloniki on a bike

She says the hardships here will never end and that she has gone through too much

'A book that is

Upside Down Heart (2012) and Reclaimed Land (2013)

questions cultural identity and demonstrates her keen

and laden with a rich

The voice that guides the action here is openhearted and openminded—a lyric presence that never deserts the subject or the reader