Colin Donati: other work

Poetry and illustration (32pp pamphlet): Rock is Water or a History of the Theories of Rain: Kettillonia, 2002. ISBN 1-902944-15-1

Poetry and illustration (3-fold card): A Forest seen through the Belly of a Dinosaur: School of Makars, 1997/ 2003 ISBN 1-902099-00-1

Poetry in anthologies:

Huit Poètes Écossais Contemporains, (eds. & trans. Gavin Bowd, et al): L’ Harmattan, 2005. Selection of my work in French translation. ISBN 2 7475 7843 7

Tweed Rivers, (eds. Ken Cockburn & James Carter): Platform/ Luath, 2005. Whitadder Water poem sequence, in collaboration with artist Pauline Burbidge. ISBN 1-905222-25-4

Love for Love (eds. John Burnside & Alec Finlay): Pocketbooks, 2000. Response to stanzas from Alexander Mongomerie’s “The Secreit Prais of Love”. ISBN 0-7486-6276-6

Atoms of Delight (ed Alec Finlay): Pocketbooks, 2000. 6-7-8.

Things not Seen, (eds. Stuart B Campbell & Douglas Dunn): Aberdeenshire Council, 1999. Two poems: “Sonnet, an unfolding” and “Midsummer Noon in a High Place” ISBN 1-901275-07-8

Present Poets, 1 & 2, (ed. Jenni calder): National Museums of Scotland, 1998/1999. Four poems: “Abuin them aa”, “Lost Village”, “Orra Clans” and “Learmontov’s Yearning”. ISBN 1-901663-14-0/ ISBN 1-901663-39-6

After the Watergaw, (ed. Robert Davidson): Scottish Cultural Press, 1998. Extract from a longer poem, “Paean”: ISBN 1-84017-024-7

Work in literary magazines and journals, etc:

I have contributed poetry to Chapman, Lallans, Poetry Scotland, Cutting Teeth, Eildon Tree, Lines Review. Essays in literary magazines include:

“Antrin Swatches fae an Unwritten Quair”: Lallans 66, (ed. John Law). Inferential essay on the use of Scots in formal registers of writing. ISSN 1359-3587-13

“Coulter and Pleuch,” Chapman 102/3, (ed. Joy Hendry). Essay on the poetry of William Neill. ISBN 1-903700-06 x

Other work:

“The Corbies”: SAC, Scots Poem of the Month, April 2005. Translation of Arthur Rimbaud, “Les Corbeaux”. Online. [See links.]

Yellow House, in collaboration with composer Robin Mason. Benchtours Theatre Company. First performed at Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh, May 2007.

Finding Fergusson, devised and performed with poet and novelist James Robertson. First presented at Scottish Poetry Library, December 2004.

For God is Gane to Sleip, a theatrical adaptation of work from Robert Henryson’s Morall Fabillis. First performance in Dunfermline City Chambers, 2003.

The Smoky Smirr o Rain (eds. Matthew Fitt & James Robertson): Itchy Coo, 2003. “The Student and the Pawnwife”, translation of the first chapter from Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. ISBN 1-902927-81-8