• o Reproduction of a sketch bound in the pages of the periodical issue. On the left the artwork represents a human figure crouched down on the grass and looking at a smaller-size, nymph-like female figure standing on the right beside two daffodils (the titular Spirit of the Daffodil). Of the observer mainly his head and hands are visible and are painted in darker tones. Hues for the daffodil nymph are lighter and brighter.

Stands Scottish Literature Where It Did? Revisiting Devolution

It’s been fifteen years since the last fat volume of essays on contemporary Scottish writing. Only a blink of historical time, but it’s been quite an eventful period. When the chapters of Berthold Schoene’s brilliant Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature were being written, both the country and its debates looked rather different.