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Donald Adamson's poems are so firmly rooted in The Scottish landscape they appear almost self-seeded. The contours and cadences of language as natural as the distances, tongues and histories he describes. A very fine collection from a poet at the height of his powers. - Chrys Salt

Glamourie opens and closes with a generous-spirited view of Scotland; and of Galloway where many of the poems are rooted. Adamson explores our several histories and voices with confidence and panache, occasionally touching on the personal. He is a poet who, having spent many years away from Scotland, sees its strengths and weaknesses with a clear but affectionate eye. Living here, maybe I d feel time/ making its choices for me:/ to paint a life with blues of sea and sky,/ to unload the dream of a harbour onto the quay/ and carry it home. From: Local Things --Christine de Luca

Donald Adamson is a widely published Scottish poet and translator, and the author of From Coiled Roots (Indigo Dreams 2013). He co-founded the literary magazine Markings, and has been a prize-winner in several poetry competitions, including the McCash Scots Poetry Prize, 2014. His poem Fause Prophets, which in 1999 won the Herald Millennium Poetry Competition, is buried in a time capsule under the walls of the Scottish Poetry Library. His translations of the Finnish poet Eeva Kilpi have recently appeared (Arc 2014), as well as an English-Romanian bilingual edition of his own poems.