Fower Pessoas by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Colin Bramwell Patrick McGuinness Moving deftly between English and

Moving deftly between English and Scots

Walker draws luminance from the quotidian

these poems unsettle the boundaries between past and present

The beauty of imagery and rhythm is matched by the subtlety of the poet’s thought

Fower Pessoas by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Colin Bramwell Patrick McGuinness Moving deftly between English andFower Pessoas is the most original work of translation that you will read this year: a bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa's poetry, done by an exciting next generation poet from Scotland. Following its subject's unique approach to composition, Colin Bramwell puts all four of Pessoa's main poetic personae into a present day Scots language vernacular, and so creates a parochial Pessoa for our own times. The language of the work is designed to reflect