Iain Crichton Smith'sCollected Poems was awarded the Saltire Prize when it was published in ...

Although best-known as one of Scotland's greatest modern poets, Iain Crichton Smith was also...

'When the breathing got worse he went into the adjacent room and got the copy of Dante. All ...

These eighteen short stories by the Scottish poet and author of Consider the Lilies “focus ...

In the grey streets of Glasgow, Martin is dreaming of the mist-shrouded islands of his youth. Beh...

The eviction of the crofters from their homes between 1792 and the 1850s was one of the cruellest...

As a child Iain Crichton Smith was raised speaking Gaelic on the island of Lewis. At school in St...

In the summer of 1870, a seventeen-year-old crofter's son turned his back on his apprentices...

For an eleven-year-old boy, living with his widowed mother and younger brother in a remote seasid...

Tom and Vera Mallow, who are in only their early thirties, might indeed be said to be in the autu...

The tenement has its being, its almost independent being, in a small Scottish town. Built of grey...

The world, in Iain Crichton Smith's vision is a field full of folk; and one Scottish village...