One of Shetland’s finest poets is someone hardly anyone has heard of. Margaret Chalmers published just one short volume in 1813 which disappeared almost without trace …read more >>
Margaret Chalmers: Shetland’s Lost Poet
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One of Shetland’s finest poets is someone hardly anyone has heard of. Margaret Chalmers published just one short volume in 1813 which disappeared almost without trace …read more >>
Guest post by Brian Smith
In 1765 a farmer’s son from Inverness-shire published a comprehensive edition of The Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal, a project he had begun a few years previously. As before, he told the world that it was a translation from Gaelic poems that he had collected in the Highlands. His books were a literary sensation. …read more >>