Born in the small community of Whithorn in Galloway, Scotland, Alastair
Reid (1926-2014) became one of the most international figures in
post-war Scottish literature. A staff writer on The New Yorker for many
years, he was widely admired as an essayist and as a translator of Latin
American writers, including Neruda and Borges. He also spent time in
Mallorca working with Robert Graves in the 1950's. This is the first
ever collected poems of a man Jay Parini described as "among the finest
poets of his generation, it's time his work found the audience it
deserves".