Octavo. Fine copy in DJ

This book, like the figure of MacLean himself, is at the heart of the Gaelic Renaissance. His celebrated poem "Hallaig" is one of several major achievements in this new paperback edition, revised and corrected, the Gaelic poems with MacLean’s own translations en face.
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Somhairle MacGill-Eain, sometimes "MacGilleathain" in earlier publications) (b.26 October 1911 - d.24 November 1996 ), was one of the most significant Scottish poets of the 20th century.

Sorley joined the Signals Corps in 1940 and was posted to North Africa
on active service the following year. Seriously wounded at El Alamein in November 1942, he was invalided home to
Scotland. He was eventually discharged from Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, in August 1943 and returned to his teaching
post at Boroughmuir


The war poem ‘Glac a’ Bhàis’ (Death Valley) was published in Poetry Scotland in 1944.