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A unique literary work will be launched in Edinburgh tomorrow night which brings together the Gaelic, Scots and English languages.

The Skye-based poet Angus Peter Campbell’s first poetry collection for 15 years contains 67 new Gaelic poems, alongside Scots-language versions by the renowned scholar and translator J Derrick McClure, and English-language translations by the poet himself.

In his introduction to the collection, the modernist poet, Professor Donald MacAulay describes the poems as “innovative, thought-provoking and rich in language and imagery”.

Read more on the Herald website.

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